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THE 

NEBRASKA 
QUESTION BOOK 

State^ Gity^ and County Questions 



MADE OUT BY NEBRASKA STATE BOARDS 
FROM NOVEMBER. 1905 




Skillful questions cause the pupil to define his facts; to clarify his ideas; to 
put facts and ideas together in new relations; to compare; to judge and to draw 
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PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 



"The Nebraska Question Book" is published with the belief that it 
\will be of assistance to teachers preparing for examination to get an idea 
of what the examinations are like by studying previous questions. It is 
not supposed that the book will be sufficient in itself, or with the aid 
of textbooks on different subjects, to prepare a teacher to pass examinations 
creditably. It is recognized that the best way for a teacher to prepare 
for examinations, and for the work of teaching, is to pursue the required 
subjects faithfully, in school and college. Most candidates will review the 
subjects of the examination in standard texts, adding to these as many 
reference books as they can command. 

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the answers from his textbooks. If answers were given along with the 
questions, instructors would not care to have the book used for review 
purposes. 

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Teachers and others will find in this book a rich collection from which 
they may select their questions. 

Every question in this book has been made out by the state boards 
since November, 1905, which was the first year the state had charge of 
the examinations. 

KATHERYN LAUGHLIN, 

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Kearney, Nebraska, Oct. 1, 1915. 



READING 

1. What is meant by expression, emphasis, pronunciation? 

2. What preparation should the teacher make for a lesson in reading? 

3. Name three of the best modern series of text books in reading. 

4. Give some devices for securing natural expression in reading classes. 

5. Name five American authors, and give the title of one production 
of each. 

6. Give 4 quotation from your favorite author. 

7. How will you seek to improve the pupil's taste in reading? 

8. The primary teacher says to her pupils, "Tell me that the wind 
is blowing without using the word wind." Give five statements that may 
be reasonably expected from primary pupils in answering the above question. 

9. Name a common error of enunciation and state how it may be 
corrected. 

10. What is meant by "teaching reading" (a) to beginners; (b) to 
children who can read? 

11. What is the test of a child's fitness to read in a given book? 

12. How does reading compare in importance with other school sub- 
jects? Give three reasons for your answer. 

13. How does the teaching of literature differ from the beginnings 
and practice of reading? 

14. Give titles and outlines of five books, not fiction, which you have 
read. Give two points from one of these books. 

15. Mention five things to be considered under the head of the 
"mechanics of reading." 

16. Discuss the advantages and propriety of preparing pupils to use 
the public library. 

17. Show how a school library should prepare for the public library. 

18. What is the difference between a trained, and an untrained worker's 
use of books of reference? 

19. Mention the advantages of a preparatory conversation about the 
reading lesson. 

20. (a) What is sight reading? (b) What are the objections to concert 
reading? 

21. Is it possible to overwork the dictionary in the preparation of the 
reading lesson? 

22. (a) Shall the teacher encourage the pupil of the grammar grade 
to read a few good books, or many books as they come to hand? (b) Why? 

23. (a) Name five books which you can recommend to children to 
read, (b) State briefly your reasons therefor. 

24. (a) Write a quotation from your favorit author. (b) Tell why 
he is your favorite. 

25. Give a brief sketch of Longfellow, and name one of his most pop- 
ular poems. 



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26. Write a short story of one of America's most successful and pop- 
ular prose humorists. 

27. Name one of the best modern textbooks in reading for the primary 
grades. Give reasons. 

28. Give your method of teaching reading and literature in the advanced 
grammar grades. 

29. Discuss the importance of the tone of voice in reading. 

30. What are some of the advantages of having pupils read about things 
which are in season and about events as they occur? 

31. Name the authors of each of the following poems: (a) The Ameri- 
can Flag; (b) Thanatopsis; (c) Evangeline; (d) Barbara Frietchie; (e) 
The One-Hoss Shay. 

32. Name the author of each of the following selections: (a) The 
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; (b) Poor Richard's Maxims; (c) Rip Van 
Winkle; (d) The Last of the Mohicans; (e) Uncle Tom's Cabin. 

33. Give a model program for a Washington — Lincoln Day celebration 
by your school. 

34. State four reasons why everybody should learn to read. 

35. Discuss the importance of learning what to read. 

36. Give reasons as to which is the more difficult for a child learning 
to read : 

(a) "Does the fat rat see the cat on the mat?" 

(b) "Hiawatha lived in a wigwam with old Nokomis." 

37. To what extent should the study of pictures be used in teaching 
reading? 

38. Contrast your methods of conducting a primary class in reading 
with those you employ in the seventh or eighth grade. 

39. (a) What elements are included in expression? (b) Distinguish 
between emphasis and accent. 

40. How do you seek to interest your pupils in good literature? 

41. (a) What is the value of story telling in teaching reading? (b) What 
three characteristics should such stories possess? 

42. What effects in the following lines from Whittier's "Kansas Emi- 
grants." 

"We cross the prairies, as of old, 
The Pilgrims crossed the sea, 
To make the West, as they the East, 
The homestead of the free!" 

43. How can you tell when a child has mastered a new word? 

44. Why should a child be carefully trained in reading aloud? 

45. Where in literture do we find the following characters. (Choose 
any five from this list.) 

Ichabod Crane Lochinvar 

John Alden Adame Bede 

Maud Muller Enoch Arden 

Poor Richard Hamlet 

Sir Launfal Oliver Twist 

46. Distinguish between grammatical and rhetorical punctuation. 

47. What causes too rapid reading? How may these causes be removed? 

48. How can children be taught to look for the main ideas in a selection? 

49. Indicate the emphatic words in the following: 
They are poor 

That have lost nothing; they are poorer far 



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Who, losing, have forgotten; they most poor 
Of all, who lose and wish they might forget. 

— Jean Ingelow. 

50. How may "effects" be classified? 

51. What is your guide in determining the length of lessons to assign 
to a reading class in the fourth grade? 

52. Why is teaching of phonics important? Suggest a simple drill in 
phonics for a sixth grade reading class. 

53. Indicate and explain the effects in the following from "Cobbler 
Keezar's Vision": 

"O for the breath of vineyards, 
Of apples and nuts and wine! 
For an oar to row and a breeze to blow 
Down the grand old river Rhine!" 
A tear in his blue eye glistened, 
And dropped on his beard so gray, 
"Old, old am I," said Keezar, 
"And the Rhine flows far away!" 

—J. G.Whittier. 

54. Name a selection which should be read rapidly, one at medium 
rate, and one at slow rate. 

55. What figures do you find in the follov>'ing from "The Golden 
Milestone?" 

Leafless are the trees; their purple branches 
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral. 

Rising silent 
In the Red Sea of the winter sunset. 

— Longfellov\'. 

56. Upon what would you base promotion in primary grades? 

57. What are the important things to be taught about a new word? 

58. A fourth reader class in a rural school has re-read its reader a 
number of times, but still reads indifferently. How would you supplement 
this book, providing the district would not furnish new textbooks? 

59. What would you aim to lay the most stress on while using the 
above reader, mechanics or thought getting? Why? 

60. In what grade would you begin to emphasize the literary side of 
reading? How would you do this? 

61. Name a noted (a) essayist, (b) humorist, (c) historian, (d) poet, 
(a) novelist. 

62. Name two short poems which you would recommend for children 
to memorize. Why would you recommend them? 

63. Name a book which you have read which has added to your culture 
and education. Explain why? 

64. Give suggestion for use of pictures in teaching reading. 

65. Define "falling inflection." Give a rule for employing it. 

66. What is the purpose of the myth? The fairy story? 

67. Is it advisable to teach dialect selections to pupils? Why? 

68. Name a poet who employs dialect frequently? What is his purpose 
in so doing? 

69. Give three "first steps" in teaching reading to a chart class in a 
rural school. 

70. Give two practical suggestions for supplying good pictures for a 
rural school. 



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71. (a) What is the theme (story) of "Evangeline?" Name its prin- 
cipal characters and anchor, (b) What is the theme of "Enoch Arden?" 
Name its principal characters and author. 

72. Write a ten-line sketch of Holmes' life. Name one of his best 
poems and one of his best prose works. 

73. Name the author of each of the following selections: 
The Water Babies Ben Hur. 

The Star Spangled Banner The Holy Grail. 

The Barefoot Boy 

74. What is the advantage of memorizing choice selections which may 
even be a little beyond the child's present comprehension? 

75. Give live diacritical markings of the letter a, and illustrate each 
with a word. 

76. What preparation on the part of the teacher do you consider neces- 
sary to give a reading lesson well? 

77. How may we create within the child the love for good literature? 

78. Describe a prominent character from one of Longfellow's poems. 

79. Of what use is supplementary reading? How much time should 
be devoted to it? 

80. Tell what you can of the life and name a familiar production of 
either Robert Louis Stevenson or Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

81. Name two ways in which a teacher may aid in overcoming the 
self-consciousness of an upper-grade pupil. 

82. In what selection do we read of the following characters? (Choose 
five.) 

John Alden Othello 

Nokomis Sir Galahad 

Little Nell Van Bummel 

Beth . Ivanhoe 

Lady of Shalott 

8o. What are the advantages of repeating a reading lesson? 

84. Name the vowels in English. The diphthongs. 

85. Why is a good conversational tone to be emphasized in teaching 
reading? 

86. What devices in reading can you suggest for interesting the older 
pupils in a rural school? 

87. What is the difference between a descriptive and a narrative poem? 

88. Give a quotation from, and name the author of: 

1. The Psalm of Life. 

2. Maud Muller. 

89. Tell what you can of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

90. What is meant by "The atmosphere of a selection?" How may it 
be obtained? 

91. Name four familiar selections suitable for sight reading. 

92. What is a parable, and what is its purpose? 

93. I o you criticize your pupils during the reading? Give reasons for 
your answer. 

94. Name three tests of good reading. 

95. Name two ways in which a word may be made emphatic. 

96. Name selections from our readers that may be classed as: Patriotic, 
pathetic, humorous. 

97. How v.ould you correlate history with reading when your class is 



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studying the Revolutionary War? 

98. Name a book or selection from each of the following authors? Alcott, 
Riley, Cooper, Holmes, Whittier. 

99. Name four books you ^"Ould recommend for childrens' home realing, 

100. Define pitch, rate, emphasis, inflection. 

101. Name the authors of any five of the following selections: The 
Raven, Snow Bound, Ben Hur, The Great Stone Face, Little Orphant Annie, 
Enoch Arden, Vision of Sir Launfal, Thanatopsis, Paul Revere's Ride. 

102. Give a quotation from any two of the above, stating w^iich ones. 

103. Name two well known persons from each of the following clasf^es: 
Historians, novelists, poets, orators. 

104. Name some faults that should be especially guarded against in 
reading. 

105. Copy the following selection and underline the emphatic words: 
"Nothing useless is, or low; 

Each thing in its place is best; 
And w^hat seems but idle show 
Strengthens and supports the res't." 

106. Define and give example of any two of the following figures of 
speech: Metaphor, Simile, Apostrophe, Synecdoche, Metonymy. 

107. What is figurative language? Write a sentence, or sentences, con- 
taining a figure of speech, naming the figure used. 

108. What is a direct question? An indirect question? What inflection 
follows a direct question? An indirect question? 

109. Explain the following quotations, using the best Englip.h at your 
command: 

'Tis education forms the common mind; 
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. 

— Pope. 
There is a choice in books as in friends, and the mind sinks 
or rises to the level of its habitual society. — Lowell 

110. Name the class of effect to which the following belong: 

(a) "His once smooth face was w^rinkled, his steps were slow and 
feeble, and his back was bent." 

(b) "And a little bird, a tomtit, came and pecked at the straw- 
berries in her basket. "Take all you want, pretty tomtit," said 
Little Red Riding-hood, "there will still be plenty left for 
Grandmother and me." 

(c) "The poor school master sat in the same place, holding the 
small cold hand in his, and chafing it. 

It was but the hand of a dead child. 

He felt that; and yet he chafed it still, and could not lay it 
down," 

111. Classify the following authors as poets, orators or novelists: 

J, G, Holland, Francis Scott Key, James G. Blaine, Harriet Beecher, 
Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, James Russell Lowell, William Jen- 
nings Bryan, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Everett, William Dean 
Howells. 

112. Give the title and names of the authors of two books that you 
have read during the past year, 

113. Give reasons why a teacher should be (a) a good reader; (b) a 
lover of good literature and a judge of it. 



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114. What is meant by phonics? Why is the teaching of phonetics im- 
portant ? 

115. Classify effects. Illustrate each. 

116. For what purpose are types or figures of speech used in literature? 

117. How does the "Look and Say" method aid pupils in giving correct 
melody? 

118. Outline an assignment for a reading lesson. 

119. Name two famous statemen, two orators, two poets. 

120. Define "interpretative reading." 

121. W^hat is an allegory? Name a famous allegory. 

122. What determines grouping? Indicate the grouping in the following: 
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this 
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the 
proposition that all men are created equal." 

123. How would you introduce composition work in connection with 
"Snowbound" in an eighth grade class? 

124. Write a selection from "The Landing of the Pilgrims," or Gray's 
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." 

125. From the following list name five productions best suited for use 
in the school room: 

Five Little Peppers, Black Beauty, Dora Thorne, Vision of Sir 
Launfal, The Right of Way, The Builders, October's Bright Blue 
Weather, The Sandpiper. 

126. Outline a course for teaching reading during the child's third year 
in school. 

127. "And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, 
Wiien the blue wave rolls nightly on dark Galilee." 

(a) What figure of sijeech in the above? 

(b) What common type quality between "sheen of spears" and 
"stars"? 

128. What is the purpose of effects in literature? Classify effects. 

129. When should the orotund quality of voice be used? the sombre? 
the normal? 

130. What is monotone? When should it be used? 

131. What is oratory? Whom do you consider the greatest living orator? 
Why? 

132. Why should articulation drill and oral reading not be combined? 

133. Why is it important in the study of any subject that a pupil should 
be a good reader? 

134. "Next lesson for tomorrow. Class excused." What do you think 
of this method for assigning a reading in the third reader? Present fully a 
better method. 

135. What is the best method for avoiding mechanical processes — that 
is, reading merely by rule, punctuation marks, etc. 

136. How should you combine work in composition with the reading 
lesson? 

137. Name four books which you think suited to develop a taste for 
good literature among youth and which will aid in the formation of character. 

138. Give a sketch of a famous New England writer. Write not less 
than ten lines and not more than twenty. 

139. What should be the character of supplementary reading in the 
third and fourth grades? 



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140. (a) Name three methods used in teaching beginners to read. 
Which method would you employ? (b) Name one wealmess of your favorite 
method. 

141. (a) Who is your favorite American prose author? (b) Name a 
well known production of this author, (c) Name your favorite American 
poet, (d) Name a well known production of this author. 

142. Give the name of the author of each of the follovving: 'Hymn to 
the Night", "The First Snowfall", "Norse Lullaby." 

143. What are the advantages of concert work in teaching beginners to 
read? What are the disadvantages? 

144. Define "pitch"; "rate," as used in mechanics of reading. 

145. Explain the value of good articulation. How may this accomplish- 
ment be taught best? 

146. How may the little child be given the desire to learn to read? 

147. What is meant by expressive reading? What must the pupil know 
before he can read with expression? 

148. Give an example of an "effect of mood." Explain fully. 

149. What is meant by the "intrinsic value" of a piece of literature? 
Illustrate. 

150. What points should be emphasized in assigning a reading lesson 
on "Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood," to a fifth grade class? 

151. (a) Tell what you can of the author of Barbara Frietchie; (b) give 
a quotation from the selection. 

152. Is it wise to choose supplementary reading from fiction alone? 
Give your opinion. 

153. What general preparation should a teacher make for presenting 
a poetical selection to a fourth grade class? Give three points. 

154. Why should diacritical marks be taught? Illustrate the short 
sound of e. Italian a. 

155. Name three women who have distinguished themselves in American 
literature. What subjects have they treated? 

156. Write what you can of T^Tiittier's life. What influence did ho 
exert on the (political) thought of his time? 

157. Name five familiar poems of Whittier. 

158. Define and illustrate "Apostrophe." 

159. What shall the busy teacher read in order to broaden her general 
culture in literature? Suggest five books, periodicals, or authors. 

160. Give your method for obtaining expressive reading in beginners' 
classes. 

161. Tell all you can of Oliver W. Holmes. What is the chief character- 
istic of his writings? 

(1) "I come not here your morning hour to sadden 

(2) A limping pilgrim, leaning on his staff, — 

(3) I, who have never deemed it sin to gladden 

(4) This vale of sorrows with a wholesome laugh." From "The 
Iron Gate" — Holmes. 

(a) To what does "morning hour" refer? 

(b) What effect in this stanza concerning the poet? 

(c) ^Tiat figure of speech in 1, 2? 

(d) What figure in 1, 4? 

(e) What does the poet mean by "wholesome laugh?" 

162. Give the authors of — Choose five. 



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(a) Othello. (f) Cotter's Saturday Night. 

(b) Idylls of the King. (g) America. 

(c) Les iVliserables. (h) Little Boy Blue. 

(d) The Spanish Student. (k) Ihanatopsis. 

(e) Adam Bede. (1) Tale ot a Traveller. 

163. How would you correct the habit of rapid reading in a fifth reader 
pupil? 

164. Name the English vowels. The diphthongs. 

165. Who were the "Cambridge poets?" Why so called? 

166. Write an outline of Bryant's life. What is the chief theme of his 
writing ? 

167. 

"When beechen buds begin to swell 
And woods the blue-birds warble know 

The yellow violet's modest bell 
Peeps from the last year's leaves below\ 

And V. hen again the genial hour 
Awakes the painted tribes of light, 

I'll not o'erlook the modest flower 
That made the woods of April bright." 
" The Yellov/ Violet."— Bryant, 
(a) Why does the poet use, "beechen," "warble," "bell," "Peeps?" (b) 
What kind of words are these? (c) What does he mean by "painted tribes 
of light?" (d) How would you express in prose form "genial hour"? (e) 
What figure in lines 3 and 4 of stanza 1? 

108. Of what does a 'main idea" in a reading lesson, consist? Show 
its importance in oral recitation. 

169. Would you prefer a library in a rural school, to new blackboards? 
Give reasons for your ansvv^er. 

170. Give a plan for training pupils to "get the thot" of a selection. 

Is a set of supplementary readers necessary for successful worK in 
this direction. Tell why you think so. 

171. Name three famous nature writers, or "natural essayists." 

172. Give a sketch of Mark Twain and tell why his works are so 
popular. 

173. Give the main points of a practical method of teaching primary 
methods. 

174. What points should be covered in (a) the recitation and in (b) the 
assignment for a s-ixth grade reading clasE? 

175. Define and illustrate, as applied to reading, two of the following: 
Atmosphere, pitch, quality, force. 

176. Discuss clearly the value of such criticisms from the teachers as, 
"read faster," "lower the voice." 

177. What are the chief obstacles to good expression in reading? Sug- 
gest practical methods of overcoming these obstacles. 

178. (a) How should a class in sight reading be conducted? (b) What 
kind of material should be used? 

179. Name a selection or give a quotation suitable for slow time, medium 
time, rapid time. 

180. Name and give the authors of five standard selections for eighth 
grade use. 



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181. What public service did Franklin render the nation? What lesson 
do you gain from "The Whistle?" 

182. How would you deal with the" new words in the primary reading? 

183. Explain just how you would teach beginners to read, say for the 
first eight weeks of school? 

184. How can the teacher be sure of the correctness of the reader's 
mental image? 

185. Give a model biography of a well known American v/riter. 

186. How should an exercise in sight reading be conducted? 

187. Distinguish between the word and the phonetic methods of teaching 
reading. 

188. How can naturalness of expression be developed? 

189. What is the characteristic rate in expressions of mirth, courage, 
sadness? Name selections illustrating. 

190. Who wrote the following: "Ode to a Waterfowl;" "Evangeline;" 
"Barbara Frietchie;" "America;" 'Crossing the Bar." 

191. Why is the knowledge of the mechanics of reading important for 
the teacher? 

192. Should pupils be required to look at the text as they read? Why? 

193. Should children be started with script or print? When and how 
should the other be introduced? 

194. Should pupils read straight through the reading book? If not, iiow 
should the material be selected? 

195. How would you teach pupils to emphasize correctly? 

196. Underline the words v/hich should be made particularly strong in 
the following selection: 

197. Name the authors of the following selections: The Star Spangled 
Banner, Macbeth, Ode to a Waterfowl, Lochinvar, The Gettysburg Address. 

"Meanwhile his friend, through alley and street, 
Wanders and watches with eager ears, 
Till in the silence around him he hears 
The muster of men at the barrack door, 
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet. 
And the measured tread of the grenadiers. 
Marching down to their boats on the shore." 

198. What are the mechanics of reading? How should these be used 
by the teacher? 

199. Name three American authors and a work of each ; two English 
authors and a work of each. 

200. Make a model assignment for a lesson in reading, taking "The 
Village Blacksmith" or any standard work. 

ARITHMETIC 

1. Write in words, 792.0792. Also write in figures, sixty-four and seventy- 
eight ten thousandths. 

2. Define prime number, composite number. Give test for divisibility. 

2 3 3 

9 4 5 

3. Simplify ^ ■ 



11 1 

— of 4 — 

2 3 5 



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4. If a miller takes 1/8 for toll, and a bushel of wheat makes 40 pounds 
of flour, how many bushels of wheat must be carried to mill to obtain 196 
pounds, or one barrel of flour? 

5. How do you change a common fraction to a decimal? How do you 
change a decimal to a common fraction? Illustrate each process. 

6. A traveler, on arriving at his destination, found that his watch was 
1 hr. 20. min. slow. In what direction, a^nd how far had he gone? 

7. Analyze fully: If 3/8 of a factory is worth $15,000. what is 7/10 of 
it worth? 

8. A man paid $36 for a cow, and 5/6 of the price of the cow was 2/9 
of the cost of a horse. Find the cost of the horse. 

9. If a garrison of 150 men consume 26 barrels of flour in 9 weeks, how 
many barrels will be consumed in 22 1/2 weeks? 

10. A man paid $25 for having his house insured for three years, at 
1 1/4 per cent on 2/3 of its value. Find the value of the house. 

11. A man received 75 pounds of sugar in exchange for 10 bushels of 
potatoes at 40 cents a bushel. What was the value of the sugar per pound, 
and how many pounds might be bought for a dollar? 

12. A farmer exchanged 96 bushels of corn, worth 35 cents a bushel 
for wheat worth 60 cents a bushel and oats worth 24 cents a bushel, receiving 
the same number of bushels of each. How many bushels of each did he 
receive? Solve and explain. 

13. Reduce to a simple fraction: 

5/8 of 2 1/4 



4/5 of 4 1/6 

14. A market woman bought eggs at the rate of 4 for 5 cents, and sold 
them at the rate of 5 for 9 cents. How much did she gain on 100 eggs? 

15. A man bought a house and paid one-third of the price in cash. One 
year later he paid one-third of what remained, and the two payments 
amounted to $1315. What was the price of the house? 

16. What is the cost of 1595 pounds of coal at $7.75 a ton? 

17. A flour dealer bought 326 barrels of flour at $5.25 a barrel. He 
sold 56 barrels at a loss of $ .37 1/2 a barrel. How must he sell the rest 
so as to gain $12 on the investment? 

18. A real estate dealer sold two houses for $3600 each. On one he 
gained 25 per cent and on the other he lost 20 per cent. Did he gain or 

lose by the two transactions? Solve and explain. 

19. A merchant paid $45 for the use of $3000 for 90 days, without grace. 
What was the rate of interest? 

20. A tree broke off 21 feet from the ground, and resting on the stump 
touched the level ground 28 feet from the base of the stump. What was 
che height of the tree? 

21. Define (a) abstract number; (b) concrete number; (c) factor; (d) 
multiple. 

22. Give the devices and the discussions and explanations you would 
employ in explaining this problem in subtraction: 42 

27 

15 
it being the first time your class has encountered the so-called "borrowing" 
nrocess. 



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23. What is the shortest length that can be exactly measured by either 
of four measures which are respectively 10 in., 15 in., 27 in. and 30 inches 
long? 

24. A and B together have $9500 and two thirds of A's money equals 
three-fifths of B's. How much has each. 

25. A cubic foot of water weighs 62.32 pounds. Find the weight of a 
cylindrical inch which is .7584 of a cubic inch. 

26. Find the cost of 60 boards 26 feet long, 10 in. wide and 2 in. tnick, 
at $24 per M. 

27. In what time will $900 produce $93 at 6 per cent? 

28. What part of a mile is 6 rods, 3 yards, 2 inches? 

29. If 36 men earn $1296 in 18 days, how much will 42 men earn in 87 
days? 

30. What is the distance from the lower corner to the opposite upper 
corner of a room 24 feet long, 18 feet wide and 12 feet high? 

31. Write in Roman letters 1906. Write in words 3756.0498. 

32. Define: fraction, mixed number, common divisor, improper fraction. 

33. 21 |252. Give clearly the devices and discussions you would use 
in explaining this problem. 

34. What is the value of a pile of wood 195 ft. long, 8.4 ft. VN'ide, and 
6.3 ft. high, at $4.25 per cord? 

35. The school tax of a certain town is $4782. If the rate of taxation 
is 3 mills on a dollar, what is the amount of taxable property? 

36. B paid $ .09375 a pound for a bale of cotton; he sold it at a gain 
of 1/8 of a cent a pound and received $45.60 for the bale. How many pounds 
did the bale weigh? 

37. The sum of A's and B's ages is 76 years and 2/3 of A's age equals 
3/5 of B's. How old is each? 

38. A farmer has three farms containing respectively 168, 216, and 240 
acres, which he wishes to divide into fields of equal size, making the 
fields as large as possible. How many fields will each farm make? 

39. A man insured his house for 3/4 of its value at 1 1/49^-. The house 
was destroyed by fire and his loss was $1245. Find the value of the house. 

40. Find the capacity in gallons of a cistern 8 ft. in diameter and 10 ft. 
deep. 

41. A certain city has increased 4,230 in population in ten years, which 
is 15% of the population ten years ago. What was the population then? 

42. A town has an assessed valuation of $720,000.00 and it wishes to 
levy $5,400.00 for schools and highways. What is the rate? 

43. What is the value of 

(12—0.6 16—0.8 17 

-^ 18 3/4 

2 4 2 

44. A contractor employs 16 men for 15 days on one job, and 14 men 
for 12 days on another job. The total expense is $1,020.00. How much 
should be charged to each job? 

45. Divide the sum of two thousand three hundred one and thirty-nine 
hundredths ; three tenths ; tw^o thousand seven hundred forty-nine ten thous- 
andths; thirteen thousandths by the product of 51.27 and 5.321. 

46. A can walk around a certain mountain in 35 hours, B in 45 hours, 
and C in 50 hours. If they start at the same time and walk around it in 
the same direction in how many hours will they again be together. 



U THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

47. The retail price of a bcoli sold by agents is $5 per copy. If the 
agents are allowed a discount of 40 7r on selling price what per cent do 
they gain upon their investment? 

48. How^ must I mark cloth costing $1.75 so that I may deduct 157f 
from the marked price and still gain 15%. 

49. Divide $810 among A, B and C so that A's share may equal 3/4 
of B's share and B's share may equal 1/5 of C's share. 

50. Jones has a farm in the form of a right triangle containing 6 27/80 
acres, the two sides adjacent to the right angle are 52 and 39 rods. Find 
the hypothenuse. 

5i. A ladder 50 ft. long is so placed between two houses that it can 
just reach the top of each without being moved at the foot. One house 
is 48 ft. high and the other is 40 ft. How far apart are the houses? 

52. (a) Multiply 654,324 by 5,618. (b) Prove your work. 

53. A man bought a house and paid 1/3 of the price in cash at the 
time of the purchase. A year afterward he paid 1/3 of what then remained 
unpaid, and the two payments amounted to ?5,260. How much did he 
pay for the house? 

54. If .67 1/2 of a ton of hay is worth $7.50, what are 7.75 tons worth? 

55. A man receives $3.00 per day for his labor and pays 50 cents per 
day for his board. At the end of 30 days, he receives $60. How many 

days was he idle? 

56. What is the rate per cent when $500 yields $97.50 in 2 years, 7 
mos. 6 da.? 

57. If 36 men earn $1,296 in 18 days, how much v^ill 42 men earn 
in 87 days? 

58. A farmer sold three loads of wheat weighing 4,270 ibs., 4,395 lbs., 
and 4,290 lbs. His wagon weighs 1,240 lbs. How much is the wheat worth 
at 93 cents per bu.? 

59. A man sold a horse at 33 1/3 per cent gain, and with the money 
bought another horse, which he sold for $120, losing 25 per cent. Did he 
cain or lose, and how much? 

60. A miller at Milford sends to an agent at Omaha $6,000, with 
Vvhich to buy wheat at $1.05 per bu. The agent charges 2 per cent com- 
mission on the purchase. How many bushels of wheat will he buy? 

61. How many miles does a team walk in harrowing 15 acres with a 
10-foot harrow? 

62. A room 13 1/2 ft. by 10 ft. is to be carpeted with a carpet 1 yd 
wide at 80c per yd. Which is the more economical way of laying the 
strips? How much more economical is it? 

63. One cow in a dairy gives 28 lbs. of milk a day, which tests '6.1% 
of butter fat; another gives 24 lbs., testing 3.77r. Butter fat being worth 
23c a lb., which cow is the more profitable, and how much more? 

64. A commission merchant sold 1,700 doz. eggs for a dealer, charging 
him 59r on the sale, and remitting $339.15. At what price per dozen did 
he sell the eggs? 

65. At what rate will $1,250 yield $112.50 interest in two years? 

QQ. A man has his life insured for $7,500, paying an annual premium 
of $28.60 per thousand. How much does he pay in premiums in five years? 

67. A manufacturer sent his agent $3,177.81 to pay for some leather, 
and the commission of 1/2%. How much did the agent invest, and how 
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THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 17 

68. A baseball diamond in the form of a square is 90 ft. between 
bases. How far is it from first base directly across to third base? 

69. A cellar 50 fc. long, 30 ft. wide and 7 ft. deep was excavated by- 
five men in eight days. At a contract price of 22c a cu. yd., what did each 
man earn daily? 

70. Define greatest common divisor and least common multiple. 
Illustrate. 

71. Multiply 8.703 by .8412 and divide the product by 25.9. 

72. (a) What two lengths must you know in order to find the area 
of a parallelogram? (b) What two lengths must you know to find the 
perimeter? 

73. Find .09% of $3,000. 

74. A and B in partnership gained $860. A's share of gain was $500, 
B's stock was $1800. What was A's stock? 

75. How many bushels of wheat will a bin hold that is 5 ft. long, 4 1/2 
ft. wide, and 4 ft. deep? 

76. A man sold two farms for $4800 each. On the one he gained 
20% and on the other he lost 20%. Did he gain or lose, and how much? 

77. B owned 75 shares of 'stock in a building association at $50.00 
each. The association declared a divident of 8% payable in stock. How 
many shares did he then own? 

78. A man traveled three days at the rate of eighteen miles per day, 
four days at the rate of twenty-two miles per day, and five days at the 
rate oi twenty-eight miles per day. What was the average rate of travel 
per day? , 

79. If a tax of $60.00 is paid on a factory valued at $12,000, what is 
the assessed valuation of a residence that is taxed $8.87 1/2 at the same 
rate? 

80. Mr. Brown has sixteen cows which average eleven qts., one pint 
of milk a day. Fourteen and one-half qts. are sold daily, and the family 
uses two qts. a day. How much butter can be made from the rest, if it 
takes sixteen quarts of milk to make a pound of butter. 

81. (a) How long would you continue the use of objects in teaching 
numbers? (b) Show how you would teach fractions to beginners. 

82. (a) WHiat is the relative value of written and mental arithmetic? 
(b) Name the divisions of arithmetic which should be included in the 
curriculum of the elementary school, (c) What division of arithmetic, as 
now taught, could in your judgment, be eliminated in order to make thor- 
ough the essentials of the subject? 

83. What is notation? (1) What is a number? (1) Is 1/7 a number? 
(l)¥,rhat is a compaund number? (1) What is a decimal? (1) WTiat is 
the meaning of "The ratio of 2 to 6"? (1) What is a promissory note? (1) 
What is insurance? (1) W^hat is a tax? (1) What is a prime number? (1) 

84. (a) What is the difference between the greatest common divisor 
and the least common multiple of 12, 36 and 108? (5) (b) What is 7/8 of 
560? (2) (c) 560 is 7/8 of what number? (3) 

85. (a) How many cubic yards of gravel would be required to cover 
to a depth of 3 inches a path 120 yards long and 4 feet wide? (5) (b) 
How many gallons of cream will be required to fill 100 half pint bottles? 
(2) (c) Divide ten thousand by one ten-thousandth. (3). 

86. (a) A man pays $16.50 per month for rent, which is ten per cent 
of his month's wages. What is his annual salary? (5) (b) A and B 



18 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

working together can build a Avail in ten days. A can build it, alone, in 
15 days. In what time could B build it? (5) 

87. (a) Find the cost of 2,850 lbs. of hay at $7.80 per ton (5) (b) 
Find the cost of 925 bricks at $11.25 per M. (5) 

88. (a) Find the simple interest on $1,080.00 at 7 per cent for 3 yrs., 
S months and 3 days. (5) (b) A note for ninety dollars without interest 
is due July 16, 1915. It was discounted at a bank March 18, 1915. Find 
the proceeds of the note, money being worth 8 per cent. (5) 

89. (a) A man sold tw^o cows for $60.00 each. On one he gained 20 
per cent and on the other he lost 20 per cent. Did he gain or lose by 
the transaction? If there was either a gain or a loss, how much was it? 
A and B engaged in business as partners. A furnished $800.00, B $600.00. 
They gained $420.00. What was each man's share of the gain? (3) (c) 
2/3 of 18 is what per cent of $60.00? (1) 

90. (a) A tank is 10 feet long, 4 feet wide and 30 inches deep. How 
many barrels of water will it hold? (6) (b) A real estate dealer sold the 

Sl/2 of the SEl/4 of Section No. 7, at the rate of $40.00 per acre. For 
his services he charged 2% of the amount received for the land. What 
was his commission? (4) 

91. (a) During the first six days of March 15 inches of snow fell over 
Custer county. A test of the snow proved that each 5 inches of snov;^ 

yielded 1 inch of water. What was the pressure of the snow on a flat 
roof 60 feet long and 24 feet wide, the weight of water being 62 1/2 
lbs. per cubic foot? (6) (b) A piece of carpet is 27 inches wide. 
At $1.25 per linear yard what will be the least cost of a carpet for 
a room 18 feet by 13 feet? (3) (c) Find the cost of 22 1/2 feet of 
cloth at 6 3/4 cents per yard. (1) 

92. (a) A rectangular field containing 80 acres is twice as long 
as it is wide. What will be the cost of fencing it at $1.25 per linear 
rod? (6) (b) How many square inches in the entire surface of a cube, 
one edge of which is ten inches long? (3) (c) What is the difference 
between two surfaces, one of which is three square feet and the other 
is three feet square? (1) 

93. Paid $7975 for land at $55 an acre, sold a part of it for $3625 
at $62.50 an acre, and the remainder at $50 an acre. What was gained 
or lost? 

94. If the velocity of sound be 1100 ft. per second, what time 
would elapse between seeing the flash and hearing the report of a 
cannon five miles distant? 

95. When it is 20 minutes past one P. M. at a city in 84° 30' W. 
longitude, what is the time at a place 13° 45' E. longitude? 

96. If a man can build 25 2/15 rods of fence in 5 7/9 days, how 
many rods can be build in 8 1/3 days? 

97. Reduce 200 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes to decimal of a year. 

98. Sent a commission merchant $3363.75 to buy flour at $5 per bbl., 
after keeping out his commission of 3 1/2%. How many barrels did he 
buy? 

99. What principal will amount to $571.48 in 1 yr., 9 mo., 18 days at 
5 1/2%? 

100. The premium for insuring a store worth $9,600,, at 1 2/3%, was 
$120. What part of the value was insured? 

101. Find the square root of .00120409. 



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102. I desire to fence a lot 48x136 ft. with a four board fence. The 
posts are placed 8 ft. apart and cost 25c each. The boards are 6 inches 
wide and cost $30 per M. Hardware bill will be $2.50 for nails and gate 
hardware. What will be the total cost? 

103. The valuation of a certain school district is $26,400.00, it requires 
$528.00 to carry eight months school; hoAv many mills must be levied? 

104. Find the interest on a note given June 10, paid Sept. 15, face 
of note $750.00, interest 7%. 

105. Find the cost of a 4-ft sidew^alk around 2 sides of a lot, the 
inner edge being 4 ft. from lot line; cost 12 1/2 cents per square foot; 
size of lot, 50 ft. by 140 ft. Make drawing to illustrate. 

106. Add: 2,897; 34,543; 42,587; 5,089; 10,989; 9,999; 9,888; 6,897; 
7,896; 1,900. Accuracy required. 

107. Divide 3.05 by .0005. Accuracy required. 

108. A merchant buys a bill of goods amounting to $357.45 and 
receives a discount of 20, 10 and 5. Find the cost. 

109. How many square feet of felt are necessary to cover a cylinder 
whose diameter is 33 inches and whose length is 50 inches? 

110. A stockman shipped a car of cattle v^'eighing 36,000 lbs. to the 
Chicago market; he paid freight at the rate of $ .3667 per hundred. The 
shipment brought $8.60 per hundred. After paying 1% for commission and 
yardage what were the proceeds of the shipment? 

111. A team plowing with a 14 inch plow travels 7 miles in plowing 
one acre. How far w^ill it travel in plowing 3 3/4 acres? 

112. A speculator bought a tract of land for $1,500 and sold it for 
$1,749.40. He paid a commission of 29^ in each transaction. Find his gain, 

113. The valuation of a certain school district is $38,500; the levy is 
17 mills for school purposes. How much will it produce? 

114. Find the interest on a note of $650.00 dated July 1, 1913, and 
paid September 15, 1913, interest at the rate of T',^r. 

115. Find the sum of the following: 15 1/4, 16 3/15, 18 5/12. 

116. Reduce to simple fractions: 

8/17 of 11 5/12 



16/34 of 9 3/16 

117. Find the L. C. M. of 120, 96, 48. Find G. C. D. of 210, 840, 126. 

118. Find the number of days from June 10, 1895, to March 17, 1896. 
Multiply 12 yds., 1 ft., 10 in. by 8. 

119. A commission merchant sells 8,000 lbs. of bacon at 10c per 
pound; he pays in freight $50, and drayage $2. If his commission is 2%, 
what are the net proceeds? 

120. (702 minus 359) times 729 divided by 189 plus 54932 gives what? 

121. One pound of gold contains 5760 grains. The American half 
eagle weighs 129 grains and its value is $5. What is the value of 43 
lbs. of gold? 

122. Add 8 mi., 300 rd., 4 yd., 2 ft., 10 in.; 9 mi., 305 rd., 4 yd., 2 ft., 
8 in.; 10 mi., 316 rd., 2 yd., 2 ft., 6 in.; and 11 mi., 237 rd., 1 yd., 4 in. 

123. A certain number is as much less than 8 3/8 as 10 19/20 is 
greater than 6 2/5. What is the number? 

124. Find the cost of excavating a cellar 37.5 ft. long, 29.25 ft. wide, 
and 6.4 ft. deep, at $0,225 a cubic yard. 

125. Sold a carriage for $319, thereby gaining 16%. For how much 



20 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

should I have sold it to gain 20%. 

126. Find the interest on $375 for 3 yr., 4 mo., 6 days at 5 l/27o. 

127. Paid |54 for insuring a dwelling worth $3750, at 1 4/5%. What 
part of the value was insured. 

128. Find the square root of 484416. 

129. If given the dimensions and openings of a room, how would you 
find out how many rolls of ceiling paper, how many rolls of side-wall, 
and how much border was required? 

130. A garden 30 ft. long is divided into 3 beds, whose lengths are 
to each other as 2, 3, 5. What is the length of each bed? 

131. A sold cattle for $19,000.00 and gained 25%. How much would 
he have gained by selling them at a profit of 33 1/3%? 

132. If you know the interest, the rate and the time, how can you 
find the principal? 

133. A lot is 500 ft. long and 400 ft. wide. How many posts will be 
required to fence this lot, if the posts are placed 5 ft. apart? 

134. A hallway having an area of 216 square feet is three times as 
long as it is wide. What is its width and length? 

135. For what sum must I give my note at a bank for 90 days at 
6% in order to secure $675.00 cash? 

136. Find the greatest common divisor of 924, 1210 and 1683. 

137. A sum of money was divided among five persons. A received 
2/9, B 5/18, C 7/24, D 5/36, and E the remainder, which was $25. Find 
the entire sum, and the share of each. 

138. A water tank is 8 ft. deep, 9 ft. wide, and 72 ft. long. What 
is the shortest distance from a right-hand upper corner to a left-hand 
lower corner? 

139. Give and define five terms used in percentage. 

140. A class of pupils is ready to begin the study of common 
fractions. Explain clearly as you would to this class the following: 

(a) What a common fraction is. 

(b) What the denominator of a fraction is and what it shows. 

(c) What the numerator of a fraction is and what it shows. 

(d) How 8/12 may be changed to 16/24 or to 2/3 without changing 
its value. 

(Note) Mere definitions will not be considered an answer to the 
above. In grading these answers, the style, or manner of expression, 
together with spelling, capitalization, and punctuation will be considered 
as well as the clearness of the explanations.) 

141. Discuss the value of mental arithmetic as a factor in developing 
(a) memory, (b) power of attention, (c) language, (d) reasoning faculty. 

142. In correcting written work of pupils what relative importance 
do you attach to accuracy, and to a knowledge of the principle involved. 

143. B gave a note for $1200 at 8% January 1, 1903. July 1, he paid 
$40, January 1, 1904, he paid $100, and the entire balance July 1, 1904. 
What was the last payment? 

144. A man gave $150 for a watch and chain, and the chain cost 
'l/l as much as the watch. What did each cost? 

145. A horse is tied to a stake in an open field by a> rope 60 feet 
in length; over how many square rods can he graze? 

146. Henry Jones owns the SWl/4 of Sec. 31, T. 8, R. 1, east; William 
Smith owns the NEl/4 of Sec. 1, T. 7, R. 1, west. In one diagram locate 



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the two places as to sections, town and range. 

147. What is the difference in gain or loss per cent, between selling 
jfoods when the cost is 2/2> of the selling price and when the selling price 
is 2/3 of the cost? 

148. A certain stand pipe is 100 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. 
How many gallons will it hold? 

149. How many rods of fence will be required to enclose a field 
in the form of a right angled triangle whose area is 13 1/2 (thirteen and 
one-half) acres and whose base measures 48 rods? 

150. Give some of the important topics in the eighth year's arith- 
metic, and tell something of your method of presenting it. 

151. By selling a farm for $4228 a farmer lost 12 1/2%, How much 
would he have gained by selling it for $5040? 

152. Find the cost at 18c a square yard of painting the walls and 
ceiling of a room 16 ft. long, 14 ft. wide, and 10 1/2 ft. high, making 
no allowance for openings, 

153. What is the cost of fencing a 2 1/2 acre rectangular lot 25 
rd. long @ 45c a rod? 

154. Allowing 2150.4 cu. in. to a bushel, how many tons of coal can 
be placed in a bin containing 560 cu. ft., if the weight of 1 hu. of coal is 
80 lbs.? 

155. How much will it cost to carpet a room 24 ft, long, 18 ft. wide, 
with carpet 27 in. wide, at $1.15 per yard, allowing 10 in. for matching 
on each strip except the first, the carpet laid lengthwise of the room? 

156. If a man made a profit of 16 2/3% by selling a horse at $7.50 
above cost, hov/ much should he receive above cost to realize a profit 
of 25 %c? 

157. What is an abstract number? A concrete number? A prime 
number? A composite number? An even number? An odd number? 

158. If 13988 be added to a certain number, 429 will be contained 
in the sum 375 times, with a remainder such that if it is multiplied by 
456, the product will be 142272. What is the number? 

159. Bought 1500 marbles, at five cents per score, and sold them 
at four cents per dozen. What was my gain? 

160. Reduce to lowest terms: 

(a) 11583 (b) 3876 



17017 5168 

161. Reduce to decimals: 

(a) 27/64; (b) 13/510. 

162. A fruit grower sold 782 bushels of apples, which was 42 1/2% 
of his entire crop. What was the remainder worth, at 37 l/2c per 
bushel? 

163. Find the interest of $320 for 1 yr., 8 mo., 12 days at 5%^. 

164. The proceeds of a note due in 3 months and discounted at a 
bank at 6% were $826.98. What was its face? 

165. C and D engage in trade for 16 months. C at first puts in 
$750, and at the end of 10 months $500 more; D at first puts in $1200, 
but at the end of 5 months withdraws $200. They gain $1120. Divide it. 

166. Given the dimensions of the floor of a room, how w^ould you 
find out how many yards of carpet a yard wide it would take to cover 
it? How^ would you find out which Avas the cheapest way to cover it? 



22 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

167. Give and define five terms used in fractions. 

168. A druggist purchased one pound of quinine at 40c an ounce, 
avoirdupois, and sold it at 60c an ounce, troy. How much did he gain? 

169. A ladder 40 feet long is so placed in a street, that without 
being moved at the foot, it will reach a window on one side 33 feet, 
and on the other side 21 feet from the ground. What is the breadth 
of the street? 

170. John and Charles can do a piece of work in 45 days, and 
Charles can do 4/5 as much as John. In what time can each do the 

work alone ? 

171. A man invested 2/5 of his capital in bank stock, 3/4 of the 
remainder in real estate, and had $4,260 left. What was his capital? 

172. Property worth $6,000 is insured for 3/4 of its value, at 3/4 
of one per cent. What will be the loss, including premium, in case of 
total destruction by fire? 

173. Find the bank discount and proceeds of a 4 months note for 
$450, dated June 10, 1889, and discounted July 25, at 7 per cent. 

174. What is the volume of a square pyramid whose altitude is 12 
inches, one side of the base being 10 inches. 

175. Draw a diagram showing how to locate the NEl/4 of the NEl/4 
of a section of land. How many acres in part marked off? 

176. (a) Give three factors of 24. (b) Give the least common 
multiple of 16 and 22. 

177. A man purchased 54 cwt. 85 lbs. of sugar at 4c a lb. He sold 
1/2 of it at 5c a lb., 1/3 of it at 5 l/2c a lb., and the rest at cost. 
How much did he gain? 

178. Find the area of a hexagon composed of six equilateral triangles, 
each side being six inches. 

179. Bought 4/7 of a box of candles and having used 7/8 of them, 
told the remainder for 17/25 of a dollar. H,ow much would a box cost 
at the same rate? 

180. A room is 18 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 9 ft. high. What must 
be the length of a line extending from one of the low^er corners to an 
opposite upper corner? 

181. Find the cost of a carpet 27 inches wide at $1.60 per linear 
yard, for a room 15 feet long, and 13 1/2 feet wide, if the strips run 
lengthwise and there is no waste in matching. 

182. Paris is 2° 20' 22" east from Greenwich. Will a traveler's 
watch be slow or fast, and how much, when he goes from Greenwich 
to Paris? 

183. What is the interest of $793.64 for 5 years, 6 mo., 9 da. at 
4 per cent? (Simple interest.) 

184. Draw a diagram showing how to locate the NEl/4 of N.E.1/4 
of a section of land. How many acres in the part marked off? 

185. The annual expenses of a school district are: 

Teacher's wages $495 

Fuel 51 

Janitor's wages 36 

Repairs 72 

Eocks 64 

Miscellaneous '. 92 

What will be the tax of a man whose property is assessed at $3,240, 



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the assessed valuation of the district being $40,500? 

186. (a) Write 1911 the shortest way with Roman numerals. (b) 
Write with Arabic system, eight hundred million forty thousand three and 
seven thousandths. 

187. If $600 yields $140 interest in a certain time, what interest will 
$750 yield in the same time? 

Show that the above problem may be solved by the principle of 
proportion, or by the principle of percentage, or by fractions. 

188. A can do a piece of work in 8 days, B can do it in 10 days; 
in what time can both do the work, working together? 

189. What is the cost of 2 beams of timber each 30 ft. long, 10 
in. wide, and 10 in. thick at $45.00 per M.? 

190. A can w^alk around a certain mountain in 35 hours; B in 45, 
und C in 50 hours. If they start at the same time and walk around it 
in the same direction, in how many hours will they again be together? 

191. How many gallons will a circular tank 10 ft. in diameter and 6 
ft. deep hold? 

192. Find the cost of a farm 120 rds. by 242 rds. at $75.00 per acre. 

193. How many cubic yards of earth must be taken out in excavating 
a cellar 24 ft. long, 18 ft. wide and 7 ft. deep? 

194. If four loads of hay will feed 6 horses 8 weeks, 8 loads of 
hay will feed how many horses 3 weeks? 

195. (a) Given the area of a circle, how find its radius? (b) How 
find the base of a right triangle, given its hypotenuse and perpendicular? 

196. A company having a capital of $75,000 loses $1,875. What is the 
per cent of loss? 

197. (a) Write in words 1409.0071. (b) Write 1911 in Roman notation. 

198. (a) Find the greatest common divisor of 48, 72, 96, 384. (b) 
Find the least common multiple of the above numbers. 

199. A man sold two horses for $300 each, on one he gained 20 
per cent, on the other he lost 20 per cent. Did he gain or lose in the 
entire transaction, and how much? 

200. Find the simple interest on $420 for 2 years, 7 mo., 18 days. 

201. Define: (a) Tax, (b) root, (c) mixed number. 

202. How many bushels of wheat, at 90 cents a bushel, will pay for 
3 barrels of sugar, each containing 200 pounds, at 6 cents per pound? 

203. R, O, and W bought a drove of cattle. R paid for 3/8 of 
the drove, O for 4/15 of it, and W for the remainder. It was found 
that R paid $56.00 more than W. What did each pay, and what was the 
cost of the drove? 

204. A stock broker bought 7 shares of Northern Pacific Railroad 
stock at $97.50 per share, and 15 shares of Union Pacific Railroad stock 
at $101.75 per share. He sold them all at $105.25 per share. How much 
did he gain? 

205. W^hat will be the cost of 20 planks 18 feet long, 16 inches wide, 
and 2 1/2 inches thick, at $35.00 per M.? 

206. If 11 men build 45 rod of wall in 6 days of 10 hours each, how 
many men will be required to build 81 rods of wall in 12 days of 11 
hours each? 

207. What principal will yield $13.50 interest in 9 months, 18 days, 
at 6%? 

208. How far apart are the opposite corners of a square farm which 



24 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

contains 360 acres? 

209. A commission merchant having- sold a consignment of cotton for 
$2,560.00, retained $100.00 to pay freight charges amounting to $10.40 and 
his own commission. What rate per cent commission did he charge? 

210. Define: (a) Ratio, (b) compound quantity, (c) common fraction. 

211. A workman spends 1/3 of his income for food, 1/8 for clothing: 
and lodging, and 1/10 for other purposes. He saves $371 per year. What 
is his income? 

212. A carpenter cuts off 3/5 of a plank, and then 9/14 of the 
remainder. What fraction of the whole will be left? 

213. Find* the number of feet board measure in 70 plonks 16 ft. long, 
8 in. wide, and 1 3/4 in. thick. 

214. A man sold a horse for $192 and lost 4% on the cost of the 
horse. At what price should he have sold him to gain 20%? 

215. A farmer sold four loads of wheat weighing 4,280, 4,370, 4,190 and 
4,200 pounds respectively. His wagon weighs 1,230 lbs. How much was 
the wheat worth at 83 cents per bushel? 

216. Find the amount of $650 for 2 years, 8 mo. and 21 days at S%. 

217. A cotton broker receives $75 commission at 3/4% for buying- 
cotton. What sum is required to pay for the cotton and the commission? 

218. A owns 5/7 of a section of land, B 3/4 of a section, and C 
3/10 as much as A and B together. What part of a section does C own? 

219. A farmer put his grain into four bms. Into the first he put 
3/8 of it, into the second 1/4, into the third 1/5, and into the fourth 56 
bushels. How many bushels of grain had he? 

220. How many square inches of surface has a cubical block whose 
dimensions are each 6 inches? 

221. A man bought a number of sheep for $225; 10 of them having 
died, he sold 4/5 of the remainder for cost, and received $150 for them. 
How many did he buy? 

222. What will be the cost of the lumber to cover a gable roof 28 
ft. by 42 ft. at $18 per M, if the lumber is 1 inch thick? 

223. Find the amount of $450 for 2 years, 8 mo., 15 days at 8%. 

224. A man has real estate assessed at $2,500 and personal property 
at $1,200. His school district levied 20 mills for general purposes and 5 
mills for bonds. How much is his school tax? 

225. What will be the cost to lay a pavement 40 feet long and 9 feet, 
6 inches wide, at 35 cents a square yard? 

226. Distinguish between interest and discount. 

227. Eight men cut 97 1/2 cords of wood in 4 7/8 days, for which 
they received $58.50. What was the average daily pay of each man? 

228. If the price of gas is $1.75 per thousand cubic feet, find the 
amount of a man's bill when 11,350 cubic feet have been consumed. 

229. What is the sum of 28 thousandths, 426 millionths, 785 hundred 
thousandths, 386 and 254 ten thousandths, and 409 ten millionths? 

230. What principal will amount to $496 in 4 years at 6 per cent? 
(Simple interest.) 

231. If 36 men earn $1,296 in 18 days, how much will 42 men earn 
in 87 days? 

232. A farmer sold three loads of wheat weighing 4,270 lbs., 4,385 lbs., 
and 4,290 lbs. His wagon weighs 1,240 lbs. How much is the wheat worth 
at 93 cents per bu. 



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233. A man bought 5/16 uf a section (a square mile) of land for 
$2,500. He sold 3/5 of it for $14. 50 per acre, and the rest for $17.50 per 
acre. How much did he gain? 

234. Find the amount of $2,150, for 3 yr,, 4 mo., 18 da. at 7 1/2 per 
cent. (Simple interest.) 

235. A square lot measuring 36 rods on a side is to be inclosed by 
four lines of galvanized iron wire. Ten yards of the wire weigh a pound. 
What is the cost of the wire at 4 cents a pound? 

236. The length of a wall measured by a ten foot pole was supposed 
to be 270 feet, but the pole was found to be 10 feet 1 1/2 inches. What 
was the true length of the wall? 

257. A grocer buys a ton of sugar, net weight, but in selling at 20 
lbs. for a dollar, he weighs the sugar in paper bags, and the sugar and the 
bag weigh 20 lbs. One bag alone weighs 2 oz. How much will he realize 
for the sugar? 

238. In .what time will $540.00 amount to $634.50 at 5%. 

239. A man insured his house for 3/4 of its value at 1 1/4%. The 
house was destroyed by fire and his total loss was $2,590.00. Find the 
value of the house. 

240. A school district levies a general fund tax of 22 mills and a bond 
tax of 8 mills. How much is B's school tax on $2,300.00 real estate and 
$300.00 personal property? 

241. What is digit; an odd number; an abstract number? 

242. A man has 1/3 of his property invested in real estate, 3/7 of the 
remainder in bonds, 4/5 of what still remains in bank stock, and the rest, 
which is $3,500.00, he has invested in business. What is the value of his 
entire property? 

243. New York is 74 degrees and 3 minutes west of Greenwich. What 
is the difference in time between the two places? 

244. A man bought a farm of 120 acres, paying $75.00 per acre for it. 
He borrowed the money to pay for it at 6%. After holding it eight months, 
he sold it at $90.00 per acre. How much did he make in the transaction? 

245. A commission merchant received $12,300.00 with which to buy 
cotton after deducting his commission of 2 1/2%, How many pounds did 
he buy at 12 cents per pound? 

246. Six per cent bonds are bought for 25% discount. What rate of 
interest will they produce on the investment? Show your work. 

247. An agent sold a sewing machine and sent the company $56.00, 
after deducting his commission of 12 1/2%. What did he receive for the 
machine? 

248. A dealer marked a bedroom set 15% above cost, this representing 
a gain of $9.50. He sold it at a discount of 10% off the marked price. 
How much did he gain? 

249. A dealer bought 7256 1/2 bushels of wheat at 83 1/2 cents per 
bushel, and sold it at a profit of $435.39. What was the selling price per 
bushel? 

250. A farmer sold 150 bushels of wheat at 98 cents a bushel, and a 
certain number of bushels of corn at $0,625 per bushel. He received $15.50 
more for the corn than for the wheat. How many bushels of corn did he 
sell? 

251. How much will it cost to excavate a cellar 36 feet long, 24 feet 
wide, and 7 feet deep, at 35 cents a cubic yard? 



26 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

252. A man owns real estate assessed at $3,200.00 and personal prop- 
erty at $480.00. The school district in which he lives makes a levy of 20- 
mills on the dollar for the general fund, and 5 mills for the bond fund. 
What is his total school tax? 

253. Find the amount of $650.00 for 2 years, 8 months, 18 days, at 
7 1/2%. 

254. A man pays $175.00 a year for the rent of a house worth $2,000.00. 
Will he gain or lose and how much per year, if he borrows money at 
5% to purchase the house? Taxes, repairs, and insurance amount to $65.00* 
per year. 

255. If a man takes 2 steps of 30 inches each in 3 seconds, how long; 
will it take him to walk six miles? , 

256. If 5/6 of a yard of cloth costs $3.75, what will 5 3/5 yards cost? 

257. A farmer sold four loads of shelled corn. The weights are 4085, 
4115, 4075 and 4110 lbs. respectively. The wagon weighs 1200 pounds. How 
much should he receive for the corn at 47 cents per bushel? 

258. A sixty-three gallon cask is 5/8 full. 9 1/2 gallons being drawn 
off, how full will it be? (That is, what fractional part of the cask will 
remain filled?) 

259. What price must a merchant mark on a hat costing $2.00, so as 
to make 20% on the cost after he has made a deduction of 25% from the 
marked price? 

260. Divide: (a) .5736 by .239; (b) .05736 by 2.39; (c) .005736 by .0239. 

261. If wheat yields 20 bushels per acre, and sells at 80 cents per 
bushel, which is better to the land owner 'and how much per acre, to rent 
the land for 2/5 of the crop, or for $5.00 per acre cash rent? 

262. A man agrees to work a year for $300, and a horse worth $60.. 
If he leaves at the end of 9 months how much is due him if he has already 
received $100 and the horse? 

263. Multiply the sum of 6 2/3 and 4 3/4 by their difference. 

264. Write in words (a) 173.0173. (b) Divide .014337 by 295. 

265. What is the cost of fencing a quarter section of pasture at 60 
cents a rod? 

266. Goods costing $96 are marked at 25% advance. What per cent 
is gained if they are sold at a reduction of 10% from their marked prices? 

267. If 17 men receive $357 for six days' work, how much should 
24 men receive for 10 days work? 

268. If I sell 3/4 of my farm for what 7/8 of it cost me, what is my 
percent of gain? 

269. Distinguish clearly between H. C. F. and L. C. M. 

270. Find the L. C. M. and the G. C. D. by the factoring method of 
the following: 60, 72, 90. 

271. How many strips of carpet, and of what length, should be pur- 
chased to carpet a room 15 by 18 feet, in the most economical manner, 
the carpet being 3/4 yards wide, and no allowance for matching? 

272. Mr. Brown owns a corner lot 50 by 132 feet. Find the cost of 
building a cement walk 4 feet wide across the front and one side of his 
lot, the inside line of the walk to be four feet outside of the lot line. 

273. What is the interest on $540 for 3 years, 5 months, 24 days at 6%. 

274. A square field contains 40 acres. Find the cost of fencing at 
75 cents a rod. 

275. A dealer sold 2/3 of his stock for what 4/5 of it cost him. 



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What was his gain per cent? 

276. Define (a) cube; (b) rectangle; (c) sphere. 

277. A man bequeathed to his son $7500, which was 3 3/4 times what 
be gave his daughter. Wliat did the daughter receive? 

278. A man owning .4725 of a vessel, sold .3 of his share. What part 
had he left? 

279. What will be the cost of the following: Three 2 by I's twelve feet 
long and five boards 18 ft. long and 8 in. wide at $35 a thousand? 

280. What is the gain per cent by buying coal at $6 per long ton of 
2240 pounds and selling it at $6 per short ton? 

281. A town must raise $6400. If 4% of taxes levied are not collected, 
how much must be levied? 

282. A field is 160 rods long and 40 rods v\ide. Find the side of a 
square field containing the same area. 

283. Analyze: A party of six hired a coach. If there had been 4 more, 
the cost would have been two dollars less for each person. What was the 
cost of the coach? 

284. D, E, and F, start together around a circular track 5280 feet in 
length, D drives 1760 feet per minute; E 1320; and F 1056. How many 
times will each have ridden around the track when all are together again 
at the starting point? 

285. A dealer paid $337 1/2 for apples at $2 1/4 a bbl., and sold 8/15 
of them at a prifit of $3/4 per barrel, and the remainder at a loss of $1/2 
per barrel, what was his gain? 

286. A field 80 rods long and 32 rods wide at one end and 24 rods wide 
at the other produced 573 bushels of wheat. How many bushels was that 
per acre? 

287. How many panels of fence 12 feet long will be required to enclose 
a field 48 rods long and 36 rods wide? 

288. A real estate dealer sold a farm for $11400, and lost 57c. What 
did the farm cost him? 

2S9. A druggist buys by Avoirdupois weight (7000 grains to the pound) 
and sells by Apothecary weight (5760 grains to the pound). What is his 
gain per cent? 

290. Find the simple interest of $540 for 2 years 8 months, and 24 days 
at 7%. 

291. Define (a) commission; (b) percentage. 

292. If 12 barrels of pork, each containing 200 pounds, are worth $192, 
what will 80 pounds cost at the same rate per pound? 

293. A farmer brought to market 3 jars of butter, weighing 27, 29, and 
40 pounds, respectively. The empty jars weighed 4 1/3, 4 8/9 and 7 1/4 
pounds. The butter was sold for $28. What was the price per pound? 

294. A flour dealer bought 326 barrels of flour at $5.25 per barrel. He 
?old 58 barrels at a loss of $ .37 1/2 per barrel. How must he sell the 
rest per barrel to gain $12 on the investment? 

295. Divide the reciprocal of 2 1/3 by the reciprocal of three-sevenths. 

296. A man left 1/2 of his estate to his wife; 5/8 of the remainder to 
his daughter, and the remainder to his son. The wife received $146.75 more 
than the son. What was the value of the estate? 

297. A man bought the N. E. quarter of the N. W. quarter, and the 
E. half of the S. W. quarter, of section 6, town 9, range 12 at $45 an acre. 
Determine the number of acres bought, the price paid, and draw a plot 



2S THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

of the section and locate the land purchased. 

298. There is a plot of ground 16 rods square. Around the edge there 
is a path containing fifteen-sixty-fourths of the area of the plot. How 
wide is the path? 

299. What principal will at 8% simple interest gain $53.08 in 1 yr., 
6 mo., vS days? 

800. A tailor sold a suit of clothes for $42 and thereby made profit 
of 16 2/3'%. What per cent would have been gained or lost had he sold 
the suit for $30? 

301. What will it cost to carpet a room 24 ft. long, 24 ft. wide, and 
9 ft. high with carpet that is 27 inches wide, at $1.25 per yard? 

302. Divide 42,907,870 by 85 and prove your work. 

303. Find the cost of plastering at 18c per square yard, the walls 
and ceiling of a room 14 ft. 6 in. by 12 ft. 4 in., and 9 ft. high, deducting 
for two doors each 7 1/2 by 4 ft. and two windows each 5 1/2 ft. by 
3 1/2 ft. 

304. Write and give the meaning of five arithmetical signs of operation. 

305. Divide 789453286 by 87945, and prove your work. 

306. A man steps more than 20 inches and less than 30 inches. He 
takes an exact number of steps in walking 700 inches and in walking 784 
inches. How far does he step? 

307. From 4 3/4 acres I sell A 7/8 of an acre, C 5/8 of an acre, G 
6/7 of an acre, and H 7/16 of an acre. How much is the remainder worth 
at $450 an acre? 

308. A farmer sold 43 bushels of wheat at 85 cents a bushel, and a 
certain number of bushels of corn at 34 cents a bushel. He received for 
his corn $170 more than for his wheat. How many bushels of corn did 
he sell? 

309. Find the cost of fencing a field in the form of a parallelogram 
120 rods long and containing 60 acres, at 40 cents a rod. 

310. A real estate dealer sells a farm of 320 acres at $75 per acre. 
He receives a commission of 59f on the first thousand dollars and 2% 
commission on the remainder. Find his commission. 

311. At what rate per cent will $3000 yield $162 per year? 

312. At 6 A. M., Hall starts west from Carroll at the rate of 6 miles 
per hour, and at 9 A. M., Wood starts south from the same place at the 
rate of 9 miles per hour. How far apart are they at noon? 

313. A real estate agent wishes to divide 3 pieces of land 325, 675, 
and 950 feet wide, into town lots of equal width. What is the largest 
possible width for each lot? 

314. A man worked ten and three-tenths days. He paid for his board 
2/5 of his earnings, and had left $12.36. What were his daily wages? 

315. How many square feet of boards are required for the two gables 
of a barn 32 feet wide, the ridge being 8 feet 6 inches higher than the 
plates ? 

316. If 15 men earn $750 in 25 days, in how many days will 20 men 
earn $600? 

317. A farmer bought 80 acres of land at $50 per acre, and spent $1800 
for improvements. How must he sell it per acre so as to gain 15%. 

318. Find the simple interest on $350 at 7 per cent, for 1 year, 7 
months and 18 days. Use a good method and make work at least as neat 
and clear as you would require it to be done by your pupils. 



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319. What will it cost to fence a square field containing 90 acres, at 
$1.25 per rod? 

320. A man bequeathed 1/3 of his estate to his wife, 1/6 to each of 
three children, 1/12 to his brother, and the rest, amounting to $1850, to 
a charitable institution. How much was his estate worth? 

321. Find the least number of oranges that may be arranged in 
groups of 6, 7, 8, or 9, and have just five over in each case. 

322. Which is greater 17/45 or 13/32? Prove your answer by reducing 
to similar fractions, also by reducing to decimals. 

323. The foot of a ladder 30 ft. long is set 6 ft. from the base of 
the building, how high does it reach vertically on the building? 

324. A house covers a rectangular piece of ground 60 ft. by 40 ft. 
The ridge pole runs lengthwise and is 15 ft. above the level of the top 
of the walls. The roof extends one foot beyond the walls in all directions, 
meas\ired on the roof. Find the area of the roof. 

325. A note for $901.20, dated March 4, 1895 was paid May 24, 1901 
with simple interest at 6%. What was the amount? 

326. A merchant sold goods for $20,000 thereby gaining $2,000. If he 
had sold the same goods for $16,000, what would have been his per cent 
of loss? 

327. If the interest on $836 for 18 mo. is $87.78, what is the interest 
on $2,432 for 2 yrs. at the same rate? 

328. Write in figures: 

(a) six hundred thousand, eight hundred eighty-nine. 

(b) thirty-nine million, forty-six thousand, ninety. 

(c) CCXLIV. 

329. (a) 38765893-^717=1? 

(b) A dealer bought 700 bu. of wheat at 95c a bu. He sold 256 
bushel at $1.10 a bu., 44 bu. at $1.15 a bu., and the remainder for $394. 
How much did he gain on the entire sale? 

330. The fencing of a rectangular field cost $159 1/2. If its lengeh 
is 67 1/2 rods, and its area 22 1/2 acres, what was the cost per rod? 

331. At 66c a bushel what is the value of the wheat which fills a 
bin 6 ft. deep with a floor 5 ft. square? (2150.42 cu. in., 1 bu.) 

332. A farmer buys 18 head of cattle at $25 per head and after losing 
3 sells the remainder at $33 a head. What per cent does he gain? 

333. $860 . Cincinnati, O., May 10, 1898. 

On demand, for value received, I promise to pay William Jackson, 
or order. Eight Hundred Sixty Dollars, with interest at 6%. 

Henry Gould. 
Endorsements: July 22d, 1898, $200; Nov. 12, 1898, $300. How much 
was due Jan. 1, 1899? 

334. A house that cost $6,000 was rented for $490 a year. If $100 
was paid each year for taxes and repairs what rate of interest did the 
purchase money yield? 

335. A ship with a crew of 32 men has provisions that will serve for 
45 days, at a daily allowance of 3 lbs. for each man. If it then picks up 
another vessel's crew consisting of 16 men, what must be the daily allow- 
ance, to make the provisions last for 40 days? 

336. How far apart are the opposite corners of a square farm that 
contains 360 acres? 

337. A building company wishing to subdivide a tract of land finds 



30 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

that it can be laid out in an exact number of lots of equal depth, and 
48, 60, 72, 75, or 80 feet in width. If the land is divided into 75 ft. lots, 
what would be their value at $450 apiece? 

338. The dividend is 520 1/5, and the quotient is 36 9/10. What is the 
divisor? 

339. A stock dealer sold 375 sheep at $3.60 each, and invested .875 of 
the money in cattle at $15.75 a head. How many cattle did he buy? 

340. A roll of paper 250 yards long and 2 ft. 8 in. wide, was cut into 
posters 12 1/2 in. by 16 in., which were sold at $0.33 1/3 per hundred. 
What was their value? 

341. I sold two watches for $20.25 apiece, gaining 12 1/2 per cent on 
one, and losing 10 per cent on the other. What was the gain or loss on 
the two sales? 

342. The list price of a shipment of fruit was $480, but the purchaser 
was allowed 25, 15 and 10 per cent off. How much did it cost him? 

21. A farmer sold 5 bushels more than 1/3 of his load of potatoes to 
one man, and 10 bushels more than 1/3 of the remainder to another man, 
and then had 8 bushels left. How many bushels had he in the load? 

22. A lady paid for a cloak $20.00 more than 2/7 of her money, and 
had $80.00 left. How much did the cloak cost? 

23. A man paid me $20.00 more than 2/5 of what he owed me. Soon 
after he paid me 3/5 of the remainder, but he still owed me $40.00. How 
much did he owe me at first? 

24. A lady paid the same amount of money for each of two pieces 
of dress goods. How much did she pay for them if they were 10 cents 
and 15 cents a yard respectively, and there were 20 yards in all? 

25. A farmer has 120 sheep and cows, the cows being 5/7 as many 
as the sheep. How many sheep must he buy that he may have 9 sheep 
to 5 cows? 

26. A has $140.00 and loans B 2/3 as much as B already has, and 
then each has the same sum. How much had B at first? 

27. Robert has 3 times as many cents as Elias, and they together 
have 24; how many has each? 

28. A's money, increased by $18.00, equals 3 times his money; what 
is his money? 

29. Two-thirds of A's money, increased by $8.00, equals $32.00; how 
much money has A? 

30. What number is that to which, if its 1/3 be added, the sum will 
be 36? 

31. A grocer paid $6.40 for a bushel of cranberries; how shall he sell 
them a quart to gain 2 cents a pint? 

32. What will 3 quarts of molasses cost, at 96 cents a gallon? 

33. B's. wedding coat cost $40.00, and 3/4 of this is twice the cost 
of his vest, and also three times the cost of his hat; what was the cost 
of each? 

34. If 7 men can do a piece of work in 2 1/3 days, how long will it 
require 6 men to do it? 

35. A man owned 2/3 of a vessel, and sold 1/4 of the vessel; what 
part of his share did he sell? 

26. A has $5.00, and B has $2.50; what part of A's money equals B's 

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money .' 



37. If 3/5 of A's money equals 3/4 of B's, and both have $90.00; how 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 31 

much has each? 

38. Two men are 105 rods apart. They walk toward each other till 
they meet, at such rates that 4/7 of the distance the first travels equals 
8/7 of the distance the second travels. How far does each walk? 

39. Two horsemen start trom the same place at the same time, going 
in the same direction. The first travels 10 mi. per hour, and the second 
7 1/2 mi. per hour. How far has each travelled when they are 35 mi. apart? 

40. John can do a certain piece of work in 8 days; w^th the help of 
James in 5 days. How long should it take James alone to do it? 

41. A can mow 3 acres in 2 days, B in 3 days. In how many days 
can both together mow 3 acres? 

42. A man agrees to work for $2.50 a day and to forfeit $0.50 for each 
working day he is idle. If at the end of 26 working days he receives $47.00, 
how many days has he worked? 

43. A line 24 in. long is divided into two parts, one of which is twice 
the other. How long is each part? 

44. Three men in partnership gain $900.00. A's share is three times 
B's and B's share is twice C's. What is each one's share? 

45. I lost two-thirds of my money, but found two- thirds of what I lost. 
I then had $70.00. How much had I at first? 

46. Three-fourths of A's farm equals two-sevenths of B's. Together 
they have 551 acres. How many acres has each? 

47. A horse can trot a certain distance in 3 3/4 hours. What part 
of it can he trot in one hour? 

48. The sum of two numbers is 100, and the first is to the second as 
3/10 is to 8/15. What are the numbers? 

49. A boy had 75 cents. He bought 3 dozen oranges, and had 3 cents 
left. What did he pay for the oranges apiece? 

50. The sum of eight numbers is 95 and the sum of seven of them 
87. What is the eighth number? 

51. If 2/3 of an apple costs 3/4 cents, what will 15 apples cost? 

52. If a certain number be divided by 8, the quotient will be 13, with 
a remainder of 7. What is the number. 

53. A man owning 4/5 of a boat sold 2/3 of his share for $400.00. At 
that rate, what was the value of the boat? 

54. A and B bought a carriage for $120.00. A paid $75.00, B the re- 
mainder. They sold it for $160.00. How much did each receive? 

55. A has $150.00 saved, and B $100.00. How long will it be before 
B has saved as much as A, if A is saving at the rate of $15.00 per month 
and B $17.50 per month? 

56. If a boat which can travel 10 miles an hour in still water is going 
up a stream flowing 4 miles an hour, how fast does it go? How fast can 
it go down stream? 

57. A man agreed to work a year for $240.00 and a suit of clothes, but 
left at the end of 10 months, receiving $195.00 and the suit of clothes. 
What was the value of the suit? 

58. A and B can do a piece of work in 4 days; A alone in 7 days. 
How long should it take B alone to do the work? 

59. If a man's expenses are $7.00 a week, and his wages $4.00 a day, 
and if at the end of 30 days he has saved $70.00, how many days did he 
work. 

60. How long has it been since a man who is now 38 was 20 times 



32 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

as old as a boy who is now 19? 

61. A and B have $40.00, and B has 3 times as much as A. How much 
has each? 

62. A man being asked how many sheep he had, replied, "If I had 3 
times as many as I have and 10 more, I should have 70." How many had 
he? 

63. What number is it, to which if 30 is added, the sum will be 1 
times the original number? 

64. A sum of money was found by 7 persons. Had there been only 
4 persons, each would have had $6.00 more. What was the sum? 

65. If 6/7 of B's money equals 2/3 of A's, and both have ?112, how 
much has each? 

66. A, B and C together can shovel a carload of coal in 3 hrs., and 
A and B in 4 hrs. In how many hours should C be able to do it alone? 

67. Divide 60 into two parts that have a ratio of 2 to 3. 

68. A has $60 and B has $25. How much must A give B in order that 
B may have $5 more than A? 

69. If silk costs 3 times as much as linen and $45 is spent buying 
20 yds. of silk and 30 yds. of linen, how much does each cost per yard? 

70. What number is it, to w^hich if 30 is added, the sum will be 4 
times the original number? 

71. If James had 4 times as many marbles and 10 more, he would 
have 102. How many has he? 

72. A man was hired for 6 months for $150 and a suit of clothes. At 
the end of 4 mo. he left, receiving $92 and the suit. What was the value 
of the suit? 

73. A can mow 3 acres in 2 days, B in 3 days. In how manj^ days 
can both together mow 3 acres? 

74. A boy bought oranges at the rate of 4 for 5c, and as many more 
at the rate of 5 tor 6c. He sold them all at the rate of 2 for 3c, thereby 
gaining lie. How many did he buy? 

75. If 3 1/3 yds of silk cost $20.00, how much will 16 2/3 yards cost? 

76. If 5 1/2 pounds of meat cost 99 cents, how much will 6 2/3 pounds 
cost? 

77. After expending 10 cents more than 2/5 of my money I had 80 cents 
left. How much had I at first? 

78. A man employed a certain number of men at $2 1/4 per day, and 
the same number of boys at $3/4 per day. If their daily pay amounted to 
$39, how many of each were there? 

79. A father and his son were to receive $600 for a year's work. At 
the end of 10 months the son left. At the end of the year the father 
received only $575. At what rate per year was each paid? 

80. Anna is 21 years old, and her niece is 9. How long is it since 
Anna was 3 times as old as her niece? 

81. When I divide a certain number by 8, the remainder is 3; what 
is the number if the quotient is twice the remainder? 

343. A dealer bought 2,750 bu. of corn at 44 cents a bushel. He lost 
330 bu. by fire. At what price per bushel must he sell the. remainder to 
sustain no loss? 

344. An assembly room is 74 ft. 3 in. long, 49 ft. 6 in. wide, and 
16 ft. 6 in. high. What is the distance between its upper and lower 
opposite corners? 



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3 13 

345. (1) 8 3/4+9 \-A—=^ 

10 15 

(2) 25X3 5/8X4 l/2=r? 

3 13 

(3) 9 —3—=? 

15 45 
1 

(4) 18^2—=? 

10 

346. A man lost $600 which was 3/4 of his money. What is his money? 

347. B bought a watch listed at $100 for 20 per cent, 10 per cent 
and 5 per cent off. What did he pay for it? 

348. A note for $250 dated January 15, 1903, bearing 7 per cent interest 
was paid August 30, 1904. What was the amount? 

349. Find the quotient of 978217-^498. Explain. 

350. One of two cog wheels which work together has 21 cogs, and 
the other 11; if a certain cog of one wheel rests on a certain cog of the 
other, after how many revolutions of the smaller will they be in the 
same relative position? After how many revolutions of the larger? 

351. London is 75 degrees east of Philadelphia. When it is 1 o'clock 
at Philadelphia, what is the time at London? 

352. A bushel of potatoes weighs 60 pounds, and 0.155 of the weight 
of the potatoes is starch. Find the weight of the starch in a load of 40 
bushels of potatoes. 

353. A man steps more than 20 inches and less than 30 inches at 
each step. He takes an exact number of steps in walking 203 inches, and 
an exact number in walking 261 inches. What is the length of his step? 

354. Divisor, 403.6; quotient 2,709. Dividend? 

355. If 2/3 of a ship is worth $12,000, how much is five-sixths of it 
worth ? Analyze. 

356. Find the cost of laying an oak floor for a dining roorc 16X17 
feet, reckoning the nails and labor at $12, the oak flooring at $80 a 
thousand, and the waste at 34 square feet. 

357. Find the amount of $.595.63 for 8 mos. at Si/s^r- 

358. Four men invest $4000, $2300, $1900 and $1600, respectively, in a 
joint business. Find their respective liabilities in a loss of $627.20. 

359. A has 34625 dollars, B has 12342 dollars more than A, C has 
42325 dollars more than A and B together, and D has as much as A, B 
and C together; how much are A, B, C and D together worth? 

360. (a) In 6016, the 6 at the left represents how many times as much 
as the 6 at the right? (b) A coin is stamped MDCCCXCIX. In what 
year was it made? 

361. Three men start in step, their strides measuring 24 inches, 27 
inches and 33 inches, respectively; how many inches will they walk before 
they are in step again? 

362. Two men are 45 5/16 miles apart. If they travel toward each 
other, one at the rate of 2 3/4 miles an hour, the other at the rate of 
3 1/5 miles an hour, how far apart will they be at the end of 7 hours? 

363. A farm of 100 acres is divided into house lots. The streets require 
1/8 of the whole farm, and the lots number 140. How many square rods 
are there in each lot? 



34 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

364. Find the cost of a birch floor for a room 16x15 feet, if birch 
floor boards are worth $40 a thousand square feet, and if the waste is 
reckoned at 1/5 of the area of the floor. 

365. At what rate will $600 yield $81 interest in 3 years? 

366. A man bought land at $37.50 an acre, and sold it at $44.25. What 
per cent did he gain? 

367. Find in yards, the length of a side of a square field that con- 
tains 4 A. 86 sq. rd. 

368. Three steamers arrive at a port, the first every seven days, the 
second every ten days, and the third every fourteen days. They arrive 
together on Wednesday, May 1st. Wnen will they next arrive together? 

369. A merchant bought three pieces of cloth for $365.75. The first 
contained 31 1/2 yards, the second 42 1/5 yards, and the third 47 5/8 yards. 
He wishes to sell the cloth so as to gain 1/4 of the cost. At what price 
per yard must he sell it? 

370. What is the effect upon a decimal: 

(a) To annex ciphers at the right of the numbers? 

(b) To prefix ciphers at the left? 

(c) To remove the decimal point to the right? 

(d) To remove the decimal point to the left? 

371. A boy bought a certain number of oranges at the rate of five 
for six cents. He sold them at the rate of three for five cents, and gained 
$1.40. How many did he buy? 

372. What will be the cost of plastering a room 18 ft. long, 15 ft. 
wide, and 8 ft. high, at 27c a square yard, allowing 150 square feet for 
doors, windows, etc.? 

373. Find the simple interest of $1200 for three years, 4 months and 15 
days, at 7%. 

374. At a forced sale a house was sold for $4000, which was a loss 
of 16 2/3%. What was the cost of the house? 

375. If 8 men spend $32 in 15 weeks, how much will 56 men spend 
in 52 weeks? 

376. At $140 a rod, what will it cost to fence a triangular lot one 
side of which, 40 rods in length makes a right angle with a side 30 rods 
in length? 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 

(Written Analysis) 

1. If 5/8 of a barrel of apples is worth $2.00, what is 3/10 of a barrel 
worth ? 

2. How much will Mr. D receive at the bank on a three months note 
for $600, the interest being at 6%. 

3. Eighteen men and eleven boys together earn $169.20 a week. If 
a boy's pay is half a man's, what are daily wages of a man, and also of 
a boy? 

4. A farmer sold a load of hay for 7/5 of its cost and gained $6.00, 
what was the cost of the load? 

5. A can mow a field in five days. His son can work only half as fast. 
What part can the son mow in one day? What part can both mow in one 
day? 

6. John cut 8 apples into thirds and Frank cut 7 apples into quarters. 
How many more pieces had Frank than John? 



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7. If eggs are worth 3c apiece, what is the cost of 3/4 of a dozen? 

8. How many stones will be needed to pave a walk containing 15 3/4 
sq. ft., if the upper surface of each stone contains 1/4 sq. ft.? 

9. A farmer bought a cow for $36.00 and sold her for 1 1/4 times 
the cost. How much did he gain? 

10. If 3/5 of the population of a town is less than 21 years old and 
1/2 of those under 21 attend school, what part of the whole population 
attends school? 

11. How far can a man walk in 6 1/2 hours at the rate of one mile 
in 15 minutes. 

12. For 4 2/3 pounds of meat I pay 22 cents more than for 3 3/4 
pounds. How much is it per pound? 

13. 5/9 of 72 is how many sevenths of 28? 

14. A can do a piece of work in 2 1/2 days, and B can do it in 3 1/2 
days. If they work together until it is completed and earn $24, how much 
should each receive? 

15. When 2/3 of 3/4 of A's money is equal to twice B's, how much 
has each if A has $5,000 more than B? 

16. A's money is 1 1/2 times B's, and C has 4/5 as much as A and 
B together. How much has each, if all their money is $180? 

17. If 2 3/4 quarts of vinegar cost 19 cents, how much will 2 3/4 
gallons cost? 

18. Two coats were sold at $30.00 each. On one 207r ^^'as gained; on 
the other 20% was lost. How much was the gain or loss? 

19. How many eighths of 1000 are there in 1875? in 2625? 

20. A dozen overcoats were sold for $400.00. If they cost $25.00 each, 
what per cent was gained? 

82. A man sells two stoves at $40 each gaining 33 1/3 per cent on 
the one and losing 33 1/3 per cent on the other. Does he gain or lose 
on the whole transaction, and how much? 

83. A drover bought some sheep at $5 each. After 4 of them had 
died, he sold the remainder at $6 per head, and received for them what all 
the sheep cost. How many did he buy? 

84. Two boys on a fishing excursion take 9 sandwiches for their lunch, 
one furnishing 5 and the other 4. A third boy joins them, paying 15 cents 
for an equal share of the lunch. How much of the money should each 
of the boys have? 

85. If 3/4 of a ton of coal cost $15, what will 4/5 of a ton cost? Solve 
and explain as you would to a sixth grade class. 

86. How many times is 2/3 contained in 3/4? 

87. John gave 24 cents for some toys, and 1/2 plus 2/3 of this 
is 4 times what he paid for marbles; how much did the toys cost? 

88. 2 times 16 years is 10 years less than 7 times the age of Robert; 
how old is he? 

89. X has 21 apples, and 2/3 of this number equals 2/7 of Y's number; 
how many has Y? 

90. If 3 times a number, increased by 4, equals 4 times the number, 
what is the number? 

91. I had 4/5 of a bushel of corn and fed 4/5 of it to my cows; what 
part of a bushel was left? 

92. How many steps each 2 feet 8 inches long will be taken in going 
16 yards? 



36 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

93. A man owning 5/7 of a mill sold 5/8 of what he owned. What part 
of the mill did he sell? 

94. A had 60 acres of land, and B 50 acres. A exchanges 1/5 of his 
land for 1/5 of B's. How many acres has each after the exchange. 

95. A, B and C rent a pasture. A puts in 25 sheep, B 30 sheep, and 
C 17. What part of the rent should each pay? If the whole rent is 
$36, how much should each pay? 

96. A can mow 2/5 of an acre in half a day, and B 1/2 acre in the 
same time. How many acres could both together mow in half a day? In 
a day? 

97. What is the ratio of 3/16 to 4/5; of 3/8 to 4/5? 

98. What is the sum of 1/8 and 1/9? 

99. 5/18 of a certain distance is 15 miles. What is the entire distance? 

100. James has 3/5 as many marbles as John. If James has 18, how 
many has John? 

101. A owned 13/33 of a mill and sold 1/3 of the mill to B. What part 
of the mill did A still own? 

102. A gave $70 for a watch, and 3/7 as much for a chain, and sold 
them both for $90. Find the loss. 

103. At the rate of 1,000 shingles to the 100 sq. ft., how many shingles 
are necessary for a roof 40 ft. by 80 ft.? 

104. At the rate of 8 miles per hour, how far will a horse travel in 
4 hours 35 minutes? 

105. The area of a certain triangle is 40 sq. in. If the base is 10 in., 
what is the altitude? 

106. A man being asked how many sheep he had, replied, "If I had 
three times as many as I have and ten more, I should have 70." How many 
had he? 

107. A and B together have $40, and B has three times as much as A. 
How much has each? 

108. What number is it, to which if 30 be added, the sum will be four 
times the original number? 

109. A has $60, and B has $25. How much must A give B in order 
that B may have $5 more than A? 

110. Divide 30 into two parts that will have the ratio of 2 to 3. 

111. If John can saw a cord of wood in 8 hrs., and James in 10 hrs., 
how long will it take both to saw a cord? 

112. A man having 50 cows sold four-fifths of them, and then bought 
32 cows; how many had he then? 

113. A sold B 2/3 of his land and then bought back 1/3 of what he 
had sold. What part of the land did each then have? 

114. A real estate agent received $120 for selling a house and lot 
at 2 per cent commission. For how much w^as the property sold? 

115. What is the interest on $600 for two years and three months at 
8 per cent per annum? 

116. What is the price per yard of cloth if 2 2/3 yards cost $16? 

117. Reuben's age being doubled and increased by 3/4 of his age equals 
55 years. How old is he? 

118. 6 is 1/2 of 3 times what number? 

119. 2/3 of 6 is what part of 16? 

120. What is 87 1/2 per cent of 56? 

121. If eight men spend $32.00 in fifteen weeks, how much will fiftj-- 



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six men at the same rate, spend in a year? 

122. If there is a loss of 16 2/3% on the cost, when velvet is sold for 
$10.00 a yard, what is the cost of the velvet a yard? 

123. I lost 2/3 of my money, and afterwards found 2/3 of what I lost. 
I then had $70.00. How much had I at first? 

124. A market woman bought eggs at the rate of 4 for 5c and sold 
them at the rate of 5 for 9c. How much did she gain on a hundred eggs? 

125. A horse cost $160, and 3/4 of its cost is 3 times the cost of the 
cow. Find the cost of the cow. 

126. A man sold his watch at 16 2/3% less than cost and thereby 
lost $5 1/3. What did the watch cost? 

127. What will 3 dozen lead pencils cost at the rate of 3 pencils for 5c? 

128. I bought 6 horses at $125 each and sold them at a gain of 
33 1/3%. How much money did I gain in all? 

129. How many square rods in 8 acres? 

130. 3/4 of 84 is how many times 9? 

131. What is 3/4 of 5/9 of 24? 

132. If I pay 6 cents for the use of $1.00 for one year, how much 
should I pay for the use of $150 for 2 years? 

133. A farmer sold 36 head of cattle, which was 6 more than 3/7 of 
all he owned. How many had he remaining? 

134. Having paid $500 for 20 acres of land, I sold part of it for $360, 
thereby gaining $60. How many acres did I buy? 

135. A can do a piece of work in 3 days, B in 4 days, C in 6 days. 
In what time could all do a piece twice as large? 

136. A merchant paid $150 for 25 barrels of flour. At the same rate, 
what would he pay for 30 barrels? 

137. Exchanged 15 quarts of berries at 8 cents a quart, for 10 dozen 
eggs. What was the value per dozen of the eggs? 

138. In a pasture there are 21 cows, and 5/7 of the number of cows 
equals 3/8 of the number of sheep. How many sheep are there? 

139. B has 18 chickens and C has 4 times as many less 12. How many 
have they together? 

140. Multiply the sum of 19 and 11 by their difference, and subtract the 
result from 300. 

141. If 4 loads of hay will feed 6 horses for 8 weeks, 8 loads of hay 
Nvill feed how many horses 3 weeks? 

142. 2/3 of 3/4 is 5/6 of what number? 

143. A man received $2 1/4 per day, and a boy $1 1/4 per day. When 
the work was finished, they together received $7.00. How many days did 
they work? 

144. The premium of insurance at 1/2 of 1% is $12.00. What is the 
amount insured? 

145. A family uses a barrel of flour in 3 months, another family uses 
a barrel in 6 months; how much flour will both families use in 1 month? 

146. If 2/3 of a yard of cloth costs 4/5 of a dollar, what will 1 yard 
cost? 

147. What is the difference between a floor 40 ft. square and two 
others each 20 ft. square? 

148. Sold flour at a profit of $2.00, and gained 25%. What was the 
cost per barrel? 

149. If 2/3 of your age is 8 years, how old are you? 



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15Q. An importer receives some cases of good numbered consecutively. 
How many cases are there, if the number of the first is 28 and the last 75? 

GRAMMAR 

j. Write sentences illustrating the use of lie and [ay, sit and set, may 
and can. 

2. Change the sentences written in No. 1 to the past tense. 

3. Correct the following, giving the reason for correction in each case: 

(a) Between you and I it is not true. 

(b) It could not have been her. 

(c) I feel badly. 

(d) Is your father and mother well? 

4. Diagram or analyze: "If you have built castles in the air, your work 
need not be lost; that is where they should be built; now put foundations 
under them." 

5. Define clause and phrase. Give an example of each. 

6. Write two complex sentences, in the first of which the dependent 
clause shall be an adjective clause and in the second an adverbial clause. 

7. Define mode. Name three modes and illustrate in sentences. 

8. Give the principal parts of the following verbs : Go, begin, blow, 
swim, move. 

9. When, in your judgment, should the teaching of technical grammar 
begin? Support your position. 

10. Upon which would you place the greater emphasis: diagraming or 
analysis of sentences? Give reason for your answer. 

11. What are the parts of a sentence? Do all sentences have these 
three parts? 

12. Punctuate the following sentence: The peacock struts about 
saying, "What a fine tail I have." In the above sentence parse about, 
saying and what. 

13. Distinguish between limiting and descriptive adjectives. Give an 
example of each. 

14. Diagram or analyze: 

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 

15. What are the properties of nouns and prononuns? 

16. Give the synopsis of the verb freeze in the indicative mode, active 
and passive voices. 

17. Give uses of the infinitives in the following sentences: 
To forgive is to be charitable. 

We believe in the life to come. 

18. What is comparison? What parts of speech admit of comparison? 
19. Which do you think are the better prepared for language work upon 

entering school, country or city children? Give reason for your answer. 

20. What mental powers are trained in children by requiring them 
to reproduce stories? How must the teacher guide this work? 

21. "Every lesson is a language lesson." How does this apply to the 
teacher? To the pupils? 

22. What parts of speech are inflected? What does the inflection show 
in each case? 

23. Give a rule of syntax governing each part of speech. 

24. Define clause— independent, dependent, adjective, adverb, noun. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 39 

25. Name five neuter objects tJiat are sometimes regarded as masculine 
or feminine. 

26. Write tlaree or more sentences each containing two or more nouns 
denoting joint ownership. 

27. What is declension? Decline I, you, he, she, it. 

28. Write and diagram a sentence containing a relative pronoun used In 
(he nominative case. 

29. Analyze or diagram; 

"So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, 
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence." 

30. To what belongs comparison? Conjugation? Declension? Inflec- 
tion ? 

31. Give the principal parts of the following: Love, am, beaten, cost, 
hidden, flee, flown, bite, learn, fed. 

32. How are adverbs classified with respect to their meaning or use? 
Use each kind in a simple sentence. 

33. Classify and illustrate sentences with respect to use or meaning. 

34. Write sentences, (1) Containing a noun clause, (2) Containing an 
adjective clause, (3) Containing an adverbial clause. 

35. "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly.— 
Analyze or diagram. 

36. Parse you, into, said, spider, and fly. 

37. A white man is coming. Expand the adjective, (1) into a phrase. 
(2) into a clause. 

38. Illustrate the infinitive, having the construction of a noun, in every 
case except the possessive. 

39. Give a synopsis of any irregular verb in the passive voice. 

40. Name the parts of speech and their sub-divisions. 

41. In what three ways is gender shown? Illustrate. 

42. Write a simple sentence, a compound, a complex, a compound 
sentence with a complex member. 

43. I wish Henry to be a merchant. Diagram and parse the word 
"Henry." 

44. Analyze or diagram: "It is true that the sun pours down his 
golden flood as cheerily on the poor man's cottage as on the rich man's 
palace." 

45. Parse the verbs in "The latest gospel of the world is: Know 
thy duty and do it." 

46. Give a synopsis of the verb "strike" in all the tenses and in the 
indicative mood. 

47. Give the principal parts of was, born, beat, bit, bleed. 

48. How many tenses in the potential mood? Name the auxiliaries 
that show them. 

49. Give the kind of sentences according to use and form. 

50. Name the parts of speech, and write sentences giving examples of 
each. 

51. Write sentences having an adverb clause, adjective clause, noun 
clause. 

52. WTiat is meant by an attribute complement and an objective com- 
plement? Give examples. 

53. Diagram: Still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry 
all he knew. 



40 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

54. Name classes of pronouns and give an example of each. 

55. What are the indefinite articles? Give their use. 

56. What is a redundant verb, a defective verb. Name the auxiliary 
verbs. 

57. Define the participle and its clauses. 

58. Give a sentence in which a clause is used as (a) a noun, (b) an 
adjective, (c) an adverb. Underline the clause in each case. 

59. Select and classify the pronouns in the following sentences: 

(a) I know what frightened your horse. 

(b) The man who came yesterday is my brother. 

(c) That is not the book I wanted. 

(d) Who do men say that I am? 

60. She feels bad. Is this sentence correct or incorrect? Give your 
reasons. 

61. What are the principal parts of a verb? Why so-called? Give 
the principal parts of: Tell, walk, see, strike, tear. 

62. What are the two chief classes of adjectives? Define and give 
examples of each. 

63. What is a personal pronoun? Decline the personal pronoun in the 
first person. 

64. How is the case of a relative pronoun determined? The number, 
the person, and the gender? 

65. Give three good reasons for the study of grammar. 

66. Analyze or diagram: This we know: that our future depends upon 
our past. 

C7. I was about to send for you, for I have something to show you. 
Parse the bold words. 

68. Define inflection. In what three ways is it shown? 

In the following sentences, classify each (a) as to form, (b) as to 
use: 

1. We must seek shelter for the storm is near. 

2. He i;> the gentleman that I met in Washington when I went to 
see you. 

69. Conjugate the verb "love," indicative mood, active voice. 

70. Give one rule of syntax for each of any five parts of speech. 

71. Diagram : 

"There in his noisy mansion skilled to rule, 
The village master taught his little school." 
Parse any five words in the above sentence. 

72. Construct a sentence having a noun clause in apposition with the 
subject, having a noun clause in the predicate. 

73. Show that either of the principal elements of a sentence may be a 
word, a phrase or a clause. 

74. Explain the use of the infinitives in the following sentences: 

(a) To study is not always to learn. 

(b) He brought us water to drink. 

(c) He came to buy a farm. 

(d) He expects to be discharged. 

75. Give the plural possessive of boy, goose, child, fox, woman. 

76. Name three functions of a noun clause in a sentence. Give 
examples of each. 

77. Name the two chief classes of adjectives and illustrate. 



THE NEBHASKA QUESTION BOOK. 41 

78. Define an interjection, and write two sentences containing inter- 
jections. 

79. Write three sentences containing verbs in the subjunctive mode. 
Underline the verbs. 

80. Explain what is incorrect in the following: 

(a) If anyone calls tell them I am out. 

(b) Everybody must do their own work, 

81. Illustrate by sentences a transitive verb; a demonstrative adjective; 
a subordinating conjunction. Underline in each case. 

82. "^Tiitney invented the cotton gin. Change the sentence so that 
the verb is in the passive voice and explain the shift in construction of the 
other parts of the sentence, 

83. Diagram or analyze: 

"The Assyrian came do^\^l like a wolf on the fold 
And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold." 

84. Define analysis, synthesis, syntax, parsing, prosody. 

85. Give two uses of the nominative case; three of the objective. 

86. Write a sentence containing a noun clause in apposition with a 
w^ord. 

87. Parse the pronouns in the following sentences: It is they who 
must go. Whom did you see? 

88. Give reasons for the case of each pronoun in each of the following 
sentences: He wants you and me to go. I saw you and him in the store, 

89. Analyze or diagram: 

"Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; 
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, 
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced 
The name of Prosper." 

90. Give the principal parts of lie (recline), bear, do, write, teach. 

91. Define conjugation, synopsis, redundant, defective, auxiliary, as 
related to verbs. 

92. Illustrate in sentences: A substantive clause, an adjective clause, 
an adverbial clause. 

93. (a) Name all the simple personal, relative and interrogative pro- 
nouns, (b) Decline: She, it, who, thou. 

94. (a) Form the possessive singular of the following: Class, girls, 
man, men. (b) How^ is the possessive formed when joint ownership is 
meant? 

95. Write the infinitives and participles of "choose." 

96. (a) Define co-ordinate conjunction, (b) Name two important 
classes of subordinate conjunctions. Illustrate one class in a sentence. 

97. Diagram or analyze: "The general arrived just as the enemy was 
making the charge." 

98. Give examples of the different kinds of sentences as to meaning 
and use. 

99. Select from the following quotation the subordinate clauses and 
give the grammatical construction of each clause selected: 

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said. 
This is my own, my native land? 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned 
As home his footsteps he hath turned 



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From wandering on a foreign strand? 
If such there breathe, go mark him well." 

100. (a) Write an outline which you would use in parsing the verb. 
The noun, (b) Analyze or diagram the following sentence: 

"The bearing and expression of the man, though I had never seen 
him before, were strangely familiar." 

101. Parse the words which are in bold type: 

One morning, very early, before the sun was up, 

I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup. 

102. Give five rules for forming the plural of nouns, and give examples 
of each. 

103. Give the three degrees of comparison of the following adjectives: 
Good, beautiful, tall, much, old. 

104. What is declension? Decline the personal pronoun "I"; the inter- 
rogative "who"; and the noun "boy". 

105. Correct the following sentences and give reasons for doing so: 

1. He said that it was her. 

2. Who did you see? 

3. They know that you was here. 

106. Name four mbdes and illustrate each by a sentence. 

107. Diagram the following sentence: Here was his chance to play 
the game fairly and win back his good name. 

108. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: Lie, fly, hicte, 
know, set. 

109. Indicate complete subject and complete predicate of: 

(a) The long lines come gleaming on. 

(b) The next moment, in stalked the general with two aides. 

110. (a) Name the two great general classes of nouns. (b) Define 
collective noun. (c) Define abstract noun. 

111. Parse the bold words in: 

He wi5hed that his father might go with the gay company. 

112. Fill the blanks with appropriate words. 
I am he ye seek. 

These are we met by the river. 

The oats • nearly ready for harvest. 

do you think I am? 

James wants to go. 

113. Write a sentence containing an indirect object. One containing a 
factitive complement. 

114. Give three good reasons for studying grammar. 

115. Illustrate with sentences the difference between demonstrative 
adjective and demonstrative pronoun. 

116. Give an example of an adjective phrase; of an adverbial phrase. 

117. What is the office of the participle? 

118. What is an attribute complement. Use one in a sentence. 

119. Mention three methods of indicating the feminine gender. Give 
examples. 

120. Name three kinds of sentences classified according to form. 
Give examples of each. 

121. What is an object complement? An attribute complement. 

192. Write a sentence containing an infinitive; one containing a 
participle. 



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123. Give the principal parts of the following verbs; Go, begin, blow, 
and lie. 

124. Distinguish between the use of shall and will. Illustrate by 
sentence. 

125. Distinguish between the use of would and shouJd, and use each 
in sentence to illustrate your meaning. 

126. What is a clause? Classify clauses (a) relative to form, (b) 
relative to use. 

127. Distinguish between the transitive and the intransitive verb. Il- 
lustrate by sentences. 

128. Distinguish between the conjunction and the preposition. Illustrate 
by use. 

129. Write the plural for each of the following: Buffalo, ratio, wolf, 
monkey, attorney-at-law. 

130. Classify adverbs by means of the following words: Daily, here, 
much, well, therefore, certainly, also, first. 

131. Compare the following adjectives: Healthful, able, diligent, much, 
little. 

132. Analyze the following sentence: They that seek me early shall 
find me. 

133. Name four kinds of sentences with reference to use and give 
examples of each kind. 

134. Diagram or analyze the following: "The great object of all our 
education is to fit the individual to combine with his fellow man." 

135. Write a simple sentence using the infinitive phrase as subject. 
As an adverbial modifier. 

136. Name four ways in which a noun or pronoun may be used in 
the nominative case. In the objective case. Give examples. 

137. Give two sentences illustrating the use of the subjunctive mode. 

138. Parse the bold words in the following: 

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing 
that is not necessary. 

139. Classify phrases, (a) according to form, (b) according to use. 

140. Give three common errors of speech and tell how you will correct 
the same in pupils. 

141. Capitalize and punctuate: Mary was the daughter of King henrys 
first wife Catherine of argon and like her mother was a devoted catholic. 

142. Diagram or analyze: Having completed this complaint, the fiisher- 
man fretfully threw away his basket and, washing his nets from the slime, 
cast them a third time. 

143. (a) Write a sentence containing a noun clause used as the object, 
(b) Write a sentence using an infinitive as the attribute complement. 

144. Write a compound sentence that contains an adjective clause. 

145. Give the principal parts of each of the following: blow, do, 
show, steal, and drink. 

146. Write the possessive singular and possessive plural of each of the 
following nouns; lady, thief, son-in-law, fox. 

147. Write a letter ordering some newspaper or magazine to be sent 
to you for one year. State that a money order for the subscription price 
is enclosed. 

148. Account for the use of "shall" and "will" in each of the following: 
(a) What you have said I will consider. 



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(b) Shall I tell you a secret? 

(c) Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire. 

(d) I shall go home tomorrow, 

149. What is a strong verb, a weak verb? Give illustration with 
principal parts of each. 

150. Analyze: "Industry taught him to hew the wood and chip the 
stone." 

151. Decline the personal pronoun in the third person plural. 

152. What is meant by an objective complement? An indirect object? 

153. Define the two kinds of voice. Give an example of each. 

154. What determines the case of a noun? Give three uses of the 
noun in the nominative case. 

155. Fill in the blank spaces with the proper pronoun of the third 
person masculine gender. 

(a) I know it was . 



(b) I saw you and in the store. 

(c) It was Joseph, whom Pharoah had promoted. 

(d) I am not as old as 



(e) What it you met at my uncles? 

156. Select the adjectives in the following sentences and compare 
them: (a) The kindly little old gentleman was a collector of Bibles, (b) 
The Indian boy was strong and brave. 

157. Parse the bold words. He was driving over the viaduct as I 
was going under it. 

158. What do you think of the following rule? "Never use a preposition 
to end a sentence with." 

159. Write a sentence containing an adjective; expand the adjective 
into an equivalent clause. 

160. What properties belong to nouns? 

161. What properties belong to verbs? 

162. Define sentence, clause, phrase. 

163. Write a sentence containing five parts of speech and name them. 

164. Write the plural of Mr. Brown, sheaf, music, analysis, handful, 
seraph, canto, alkali. 

165. Illustrate five forms of the nominative absolute case. 

166. Diagram or analyze the following sentence: 
"That orbed maiden with white fire laden 
Whom mortals call the moon. 

Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor. 

By the midnight breezes strewn; 

And whenever the beat of her unseen feet. 

Which only the angels hear. 

May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof. 

The stars peep behind her and peer." 

167. Illustrate by written sentences the past and past perfect tenses of 
fly, flow, flee. 

168. Define declension, conjugation. 

169. "You may use my sled, Mary. Do you want to?" "Oh yes, 
indeed!" said Mary. "Thank you, Fred." 

(a) What 'hint" in the above about Mary? 

(b) What "hint" about the little boy who offered the sled? 

170. Make necessary corrections in the following sentences and give 



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reasons for corrections: 

(a) He told me to sit it down and I sat it down. 

(b) I found it laying on the floor. 

(c) We shall give it to whoever seems to need it most. 

(d) I met a man whom I have no doubt was your uncle. 

(e) Every man, woman, and child is going to the celebration. 

171. Write a compound-complex sentence. 

172. State briefly the results at which you aim in teaching grammar, 
and how you know when you have secured such results. 

173. Define substantive, antecedent, appositive, voice, participle. 

174. Give the conjugation of the verb see in the present perfect tense, 
indicative mode. 

175. Expand the following sentences, changing the bold words, 
first to phrases, and then to clauses: (a) Wise men are respected, (b) 
Wisdom is' the principal thing. 

176. Use in sentences (a) a participial phrase; (b) an infinitive phrase. 
Tell how each is used. 

177. Name the part of speech to which each word in the following 
sentence belongs: O, come w^ith me and see our little pet running loose in 
the park. 

178. Write a sentence containing only the following parts of speech 
and in the order named: A numeral adjective, a common noun, a transitive 
verb in the active voice, an object complement, and an adverb of manner. 

179. Write the plural form of each of the following: hero, ashes, 
son-in-law, oasis, domino, glory, deer, soliloquy, this, and gulf. 

180. Select, classify, and give use of each dependent clause found in 
the following : 

The Italian boy of Venice has the same loving regard for the life of a 
pigeon that the Dutch boy of Holland has for that of the stork. It has 
been believed for centuries that a flock of carrier-pigeons once saved the 
city, when it w^as nearly conquered by enemies. 

181. Explain the difference: A beautiful face, a handsome face, and 
a pretty face. 

182. Give the present, past, and past participle of feel, lose, catch, 
creep, hear, drown, sit, eat, break, begin. 

183. Write two sentences in which infinitives modify adjectives. 

184. Define an adjective. Show the correct use of: Awful, real, 
beautiful, grand, fine. 

185. Explain the use of: Neither, nor, either, or, rise, raise. 

186. Distinguish transitive and intransitive verbs, passive and active 
voices. 

187. Write a sentence containing a clause in direct quotation and then 
change it to indirect quotation. 

188. Define: Sentence, grammar, language. 

189. Fill each of these blanks with shall, will, should or would, 
and give reasons: 

(a) He knew who betray him. 

(b) What will I do? 

(c) When we finish this book? 

(d) I pay him today, if he demand it. 

(e) I fear I be too late for the train. 

190. State briefly the results at which you aim in teaching grammar, 
and how you know when you have secured such results. 



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HISTORY 

1. Sketch briefly the history of New York as a colony. 

2. What plan for taxing in the colonies were adopted by England 
between 1763 and 1775? 

3. Under the Ordinance of 1787, who made the laws for the territory 
until it had 5,000 free male inhabitants? Who made its laws afterwards? 

4. Why was the constitutional convention called in 1787. Give the 
steps leading up to this convention. 

5. What was the most important event during Jefferson's ad- 
ministration? 

6. What was the Missouri Compromise? 

7. Trace the rise and growth of the Republican party to 1860. 

8. Sketch the career of General Grant during the Civil War. 

9. Who were the "carpet baggers" after the Civil War? 

10. What trouble is the United States having with England concerning 
the Panama canal? 

±±. Tell something of Alexander Hamilton. Of Whitney's Cotton Gin. 

12. What were the causes and results of the War of 1812? 

13. What is the "Monroe Doctrine"? 

14. Write about Washington's retreat across the Delaware. 

15. What led to the Civil War and what were the results? 

16. Compare the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska AcL 

17. How and when did the United States come into possession of the 
territory or land embraced in Louisiana, Florida, Alaska, Texas, California, 
Oregon ? 

18. Name the present State Officers. 

19. What preparation should you make for the teaching of each and 
every lesson in history? 

•20. Make a lesson plan for an eighth grade class in U. S. History. 

21. Discuss one of the following: Mayflower Compact; Bacon's Rebel- 
lion; Albany Congress. 

22. What were the general causes of the American Revolution? 

23. What caused the delay in the ratification of the articles of con- 
federation? How settled? 

24. Contrast the principles of the federalists and republicans. 

25. Sketch briefly the life of Andrew Jackson. 

26. What was the doctrine of nullification? Who was the champion of 
this doctrine? 

27. What was the Wilmot proviso? 

28. Who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill? What were its chief 
provisions? 

29. What was the military situation when Grant became commander- 
in-chief? 

30. What connection does the present Mexican situation have with the 
Monroe doctrine ? 

81. Give an account of the founding of Maryland. 

32. What were the territorial results of the French and Indian war? 

33. Discuss the aid given by the French to the Americans in the 
revolutionary war. 

34. What men were the most important in the foundation and adoption 
of the constitution? 

35. What political parties were formed during Washington's adminis- 



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tration? State their policies. 

36. What was the attitude of parties toward the war of 1812, and 
arguments of each? 

37. What was the doctrine of state sovereignty? On what occasion 
was it advocated before the civil war? 

38. What position was taken by republicans in regard to the status 
of the southern states at the close of the w^ar? 

39. Write a brief sketch of the life of Benjamin Franklin. 

40. Compare the relationship of Hawaii and the United States with 
that of the Philippines and the United States. 

41. What event is suggested by each of the following dates: 1453; 
1783; 1873; 1820; November 3, 1914? 

42. Name the wars in which the United States has taken part since 
1770. State the cause of each. 

43. Tell briefly who each of the follov.ing men was: Marco Polo, 
Paul Revere, James Oglethorpe, Benedict Arnold, "Boss" Tweed. 

44. Name four important acquisitions of territory by the United States 
and state from whom each was obtained. 

45. Explain the meaning of the following terms: Squatter sovereignty; 
militarism; nullification, "Count-ten" treaties. 

46. Name five original colonies and state the purpose in the founding 
of each. 

47. What is the purpose in the introduction of the regional bank 
system; of the income tax? 

48. Do you think we should at once grant complete independence to 
the Filipinos? Why? 

49. Name three . of the early explorers and give the history of then- 
explorations, or discoveries. 

50. Contrast the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution of 
the United States. 

51. Give history of the Louisiana purchase. 

52. State cause and results of the Mexican war. 

53. Explain the Initiative and Referendum. The Recall. 

54. Compare and contrast the Colonist at Plymouth and Jamestown. 

55. Make a statement concerning each of the following: Puritans, 
Hugenots, John Smith, Robert Morris, Ben Franklin. 

56. State the purpose and result of the Lewis and Clark expedition. 

57. Explain fully what is meant by "The Spoils System," "Civil Service 
Reform." 

58. Name four legislative acts that were contributing causes of the 
Civil War. 

59. '^Tio negotiated the purchase of the Lousiana Territory? Discuss 
the validity of this purchase, and why it was important. 

60. Name three men who performed leading parts in the Revolutionary 
War, and tell what each did. 

61. What motive led Benedict Arnold to commit treason against the 
United States? 

62. Why is a strong constitutional government essential to the per- 
manency of a republic? Give an illustration you might recall to prove your 
point. 

63. During whose administration was the National "Era of Good Feel- 
ing," and why was it so called? 



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64. Give your view of Andrew Jackson as a statesman. 

65. Why did the South so strongly support the institution of slavery? 
Q6. What difficulties were encountered during the period of "Recon- 
struction?" 

67. What is the Homestead law? When was it passed? What is the 
Kinkaid law, and how has it been beneficial to Nebraska? 

68. Give the ways by which revenue is raised to support the National 
government. 

69. Of v>^hat advantage is the Panama canal to the United States? 

70. Name one explorer of each of the following nationalities and tell 
the region each explored: Spain, France, England. 

71. Discuss briefly any two of the following: Puritans, Pilgrims, 
Huguenots, Patroons. 

72. What were the Townshend Acts, their purpose and their effect 
on the colonies? 

73. What were two compromises in the formation of the constitution? 

74. What is the substance of the Monroe Doctrine? 

75 In what ways did the Kansas-Nebraska Bill conflict with the 
Missouri Compromise? 

76. Name the first five presidents of the United States in the order of 
their service. 

77. Who was Patrick Henry, Aaron Burr, John Calhoun, James Wolfe, 
Lord Baltimore? 

78. At the present time, what party has the majority in the National 
House of Representatives? 

79. Describe briefly the explorations of two of the following, designat- 
ing I he nationality of each: Ponce de Leon, Balboa, DeSoto, Cartier. 

SC, When and where was the first permanent English settlement in 
America made? 

^i. Give the motive of settlement in each of the following colonies: 
Plymouth, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia. 

82. Why did the colonies object to the Stamp Act? 

83. Discuss each of the following: Sons of Liberty, non-importation 
agreements, Boston massacre. 

84. What were the chief defects in the Articles of Confederation? 

85. Name three leaders on each side in the Civil War. 

86. What history is connected with the following men: Henry Hudson, 
Robert Fulton, Paul Jones, Geo. Oglethorpe, Robert E. Lee. 

87. What changes have been made recently in the government of China? 

88. Contrast the early settlers of New England and the early settlers 
of Virginia. 

89. Discuss briefly each of the following: Patroons, Hugenots, Pil- 
grims, and Puritans. 

90. Name four men who performed leading parts in the Revolutionary 
War and state what each did. 

91. Discuss the advantages in the annexation of Texas. How did this 
influence our relations with Mexico? 

92. Name the causes and the results of the War of 1812. 

93. Distinguish each of the following men: Samuel Adams, Aaron Burr, 
James Wolf, Samuel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas. 

94. Tell something of how Cuba became a republic and what relation, 
if any, she bears to the United States. 



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95. What effect had the freeing of slaves upon the South? What is 
the feeling existing between the North and the South today? 

96. Associate an event with each of the following names: DeSoto, 
Benedict Arnald, Elias Howe, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Hudson, Tho3. Jeffer- 
son, Admiral Dewey, Andrew Jackson. 

97. Name three compromises over slavery and some of the general 
provisions of each. 

98. Give three direct and three remote causes of the Revolution. 

99. WTiat were the French and Indian wars? What was their influence 
on later history? 

100. Give an event occuring in each of the following years: 1776, 1820, 
1863, 1607, 1492, 1865, 1849, 1789, 1898, 1812. 

101. What stand does our government take as to Chinese immigration? 
Why? 

102. Is universal peace desirable? Give arguments to support your 
position. 

103. Was or was not the war with Mexico justifiable? Give reasons. 

104. Name three acquisitions of territory by the United States and the 
manner in which each was acquired. 

105. What were the "Acts of Trade" or "Navigation Acts," and how 
did they effect the colonies? 

106. Name explorations or discoveries made by Balboa and Magellan. 

107. What was the "Burlingame Treaty?" 

108. Explain the "Missouri Compromise." What two states were 
admitted into the union as a result of the "Missouri Compromise?" 

109. Give history of Dewey's engagement at Manila. 

110. Discuss the provisions of the "Alabama Claims." 

111. What valuable service did Robert Morris render to his country? 

112. Give history of the assassination of Lincoln. 

113. Name the decisive battles of the "Revolutionary War" and of the 
"Rebellion." 

114. State the circumstances leading up to the Spanish-American war. 

115. Give three conditions or causes that led to the discovery of the 
new world. 

116. Who were the Tories? What part did they play in the Revolu- 
tionary War? 

117. What was the Northwest Territory? How did it originate? 

118. Name four of what you regard as the most important events in 
the history of the United States. 

119. Tell in one sentence each who or what the following were: Lord 
North, Gage, Committee of Correspondence, Eric the Red, Braddock, Magel- 
lan, Mayflower, Montecalm, Robert Morris, Robert E. Lee. 

120. Who were the leaders of the first political parties under the 
United States government, and what principles did each party represent? 

121. What are two of the most important issues before the American 
people today? 

122. Write five or more lines about three of the present day American 
statesmen. 

123. Compare the achievements of Columbus and Vasco de Gama as to 
their importance to western Europe. 

124. Give the main steps in the political struggle that preceded the 
American Revolution from the passage of the Stamp Act to the Declaration 



50 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

of Independence. 

125. Tell briefly who each oflhe following- men was: Roger Williams, 
Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas. 

126. Where was the sovereignty under the New England Confederation? 
Under the Articles of Confederation? Under the Constitution? 

127. What were the leading principles or policies of the Federal party? 
Who were its leaders? 

128. How did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 
conflict? 

129. What was Lincoln's attitude toward slavery? Toward secession? 

130. What was the work of Magellan and how important was it? 

131. Write a brief account of the early history of the first permanent 
English settlement in America. 

132. Compare the Nevv^ England confederation with the Albany plan 
of union, as to motive in fonning, organs of government and powers. 

133. To v/hat in the British colonial policy 1763-1776, did the colonies 
object most? Why? 

134. Who was William Pitt, Aaron Burr, James Madison, John Marshall, 
James Calhoun? 

135. How important was the aid given by France in the American 
revolution? Why given? 

136. Discuss briefly the chief events of Jefferson's administration. 

137. What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill? 

138. What was the cause of the Balkan war? 

139. For what territory did the ordinance of 1787 provide? What were 
the chief provisions ot the ordinance? 

140. Tell something of Alexander Hamilton. Of Whitney's Cotton Gin. 

141. Write about Washington's retreat across the Delaware. 

142. What led to the Civil War and what were the results? 

143. How and when did the United States come in possession of the 
territory or land embraced in Louisiana, Florida, Alaska, Texas, California, 
Oregon? 

144. Name the present State Officers. 

145. Make a lesson plan for an eighth grade class in U. S. History. 

146. For what purpose did Lord Baltimore found a colony in America? 

147. What was the first legislative body that ever assembled in 
America? 

148. How did the invention of the cotton gin affect Negro slavery? 

149. Mention one provision of the compromise bill of 1850 known as 
the Omnibus bill. 

150. Under what circumstances was West Virginia admitted to the 
union? 

151. What led to the impeachment of President Johnson? 

152. Mention two naval engagements of the Civil War, and name the 
officers commanding on the Union side. 

153. Give an account of the first Atlantic cable. 

154. State something of interest as to Horace Greeley. Discuss the 
best method of teaching biography in connection with history. 

155. What was the work of Magellan and how important was it? 

156. Write a brief account of the early history of the first permanent 
English settlement in America. 

157. To what in the British colonial policy, 1763-1776, did the colonies 



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object most? Why? 

158. How important was the aid given by France in the American 
revolution? Why given? 

159. What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill? 

160. What were the motives in the founclmg of Virginia? Of Georgia? 
Of Maryland? 

161. Sketch briefly the life of Abraham Lincoln. 

162. Distinguish between royal and proprietary colonies. 

163. Give the extent of the British possessions in North America at 
1750 and at 1765, and account for changes. 

164. What religious disturbances did the colonists of Massachusetts 
suffer? 

165. Name the five provisions of the Compromise of 1850, known as the 
Omnibus Bill. 

166. Compare the area and population of the United States in 1800 
with that of 1900. 

167. (a) Discuss the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau, and its effe-jt 
upon the negroes, (b) What is meant by the Alabama claims? 

168. What was the distinctive work of the Cabots? Of Magellan? 

169. Mention three Americans that were prominent in inciting the 
colonists to rebel against the mother country. 

170. Discuss the causes that led to the second war with Great Britain. 

171. What was the Webster-Ashburton treaty? 

172. Make a statement about each of the following: Robert Morris, 
Daniel Boone, J. Sterling Morton, C. H. Aldrich. 

173. (a) Who is the author of "New Nationalism? (b) Who is the 
"Peerless Leader"? 

174. What discovery resulted from: (a) Ponce de Leon's search for 
The fabled fountain of youth; (b) De Soto's expedition? 

175. Why is the battle of Saratoga considered the turning point of the 
Revolutionary War? 

176. (a) In whose administration was the Lewis and Clark expedition 
made? (b) State its object. 

177. Discuss either one: Dred Scott decision; embargo act. 

178. When, where, and for what purpose was each of the following 
expositions held: Centennial Exposition, World's Columbia Exposition, 
Trans-Mississippi Exposition? 

179. Why have the following named men become famous in history: 
William Lloyd Garrison, Stephen A. Douglas, William H. Seward, Thomas 
B. Reed, Gifford Pinchot? 

180. What territory was in dispute during the campaign when the 
slogan was "fifty-four forty or fight"? How was the dispute finally settled? 

181. Give two important motives that induced Columbus to undertake 
his voyages of discovery. 

182. Who was John Smith? What did he do to save the English colony 
in Virginia from failure? 

183. Name the most noted American (a) diplomat, (b) naval com- 
mander, (c) financier, of the Revolution. 

184. At the beginning of the Civil War, what superior advantages did 
each side have? 

185. State briefly what is known of America before the discovery of 
Columbus. 



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186. (a) What historical events are suggested by the dates 1776 ana 
1789? (b) What great question was decided in the time betweer these 
dates? 

187. (a) Explain the purpose of the primary election held in Nebraska 
en August 16, 1910. (b) Name three state officers to be selected in this 
Ktate at the next general election. 

188. What great change was brought about by the fall of Quebec in 
1759? 

189. Who were the Huguenots, and what is their connection with the 
history of the United States? 

190. The period from the close of the Revolution to the adoption of 
the constitution has rightly been called the Critical Period. Why? 

191. Give two reasons why 1863 is regarded as the most important year 
of the Civil War. 

192. Briefly tell what caused the following colonies to be established 
and by whom they were established: Massachusetts, Georgia, Rhode Island, 
Pennsylvania, New York. 

193. Name four statesmen who were prominent between the War of 
1812 and the Civil War. 

194. Tell in one sentence who or what the following are: Stonewall 
Jackson, Aguinaldo, Mormons, Burr, Franklin, Daniel Boone, Gettysburg, 
Old Ironsides, Tripoli, Robert E. Lee. 

195. Quote the thirteenth amendment, or give its substance. 

196. What was done by John Jay and John Marshall to make them 
worthy of places in American history? 

197. For what are the following dates prominent? 1620, 1783, 1789, 
■IS03, 1821. 

198. State briefly: (a) Importation and results of Burgoyne's campaign, 
(b) How Louisiana was purchased. 

199. Name a current event of national importance which you have 
read within the past month. In what paper or magazine did you read it? 

200. Give date of Declaration of Independence. Date of adoption of 
Constitution. 

201. Name four causes of the civil war. 

202. Give as much of the history of Nebraska as you can w^rite in ten 
sentences 

203. Give an important event in the administration of McKinley and 
cell why it is important. 

204. Give date and place for first English settlement in America. 

205. Give the facts connected with Bacon's rebellion. 

206. (a) Name tv^^o public questions with which the name of Henry 
Clay is prominently connected, (b) Two with which that of Daniel Webster 
is identified. 

207. Give cause and results of the War of 1812. 

208. When, from whom and how did the United States acquire Alaska. 
liOuisiana, Philippine Islands? 

209. Discuss one of the following: 

1. President Taft's attitude on the pending peace treaties. 

2. Result of the ' Reciprocity Campaign." 

3. Labor unions. 

210. Contrast Jefferson's and Hamilton's ideas of government. 

211. What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill? How was 



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it. looked upon in the North? In the South? 

212. Who invented the telegraph, the telephone, the steamboat, the 
cotton gin, the reaping machine? 

213. Give briefly the substance and purpose of the Monroe Doctrine. 

214. Name five topics that should be considered in teaching current 
events. 

215. What motive led to the founding of Maryland? Virginia? Nevv 
York? 

216. Tell where each of the following nations held territory in the 
New World in the early history of our country: France, Spain, England. 

■ 217. What was the stamp act, and how did the Americans look upon it? 

218. Make a statement about each of the following: Stony Point, 
Andre, Paul Jones, Valley Forge, Lexington. 

219. Give the results of the Spanish American War. Who was presi- 
dent at this time? 

220. Name two battles of the Revolutionary war, two of the Civil war 
and two of the Spanish American war. 

221. What is meant by the period of "Reconstruction?" What were 
"carpet baggers," "bush whackers," "copper heads?" 

222. Name an interesting event associated with each of the following 
dates: 1492, 1607, 1776, 1812, 1863. 

223. Make a statement of each of the following: Richard P. Hobson, 
J. P. Morgan, Gifford Pinchot, Chauncey Depew, Champ Clark. 

224. What is the trouble in Mexico? Why should the United States 
be interested? 

225. Mention four European nations that made early settlements in 
the United States and name the states where each settled. 

226. Name the states known as "Slave States." 

227. Name three patriotic songs and quote the first stanza of one. 

228. Explain the Doctrine of Nullification and Secession. 

229. What caused the Mexican War (1846)? Give the result of the war. 

230. What caused the Spanish-American war? Give the results of the 
war. What effect had it on the relations between the North and South? 

231. Name the greatest act of Jefferson's administration. 

232. Tell something of each of the following: Cyrus W. Field, Harriet 
Beacher Stowe, Eli Whitney, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee. 

233. What did Lincoln care for most, the preservation of the Union, 
or the destruction of slavery? Give proof. 

234. What were the principal results of the Lewis and Clark expedition? 

235. Give an account of three important inventions that have influenced 
American History, and tell what each did. 

236. Explain the difference with examples, between a protective tariff 
and a tariff for revenue only. 

237. Give brief sketch of three distinguished Nebraska statesmen and 
the services they rendered their country, or state. 

238. Name four European nations that made early settlements in North 
America, and state what territory was settled by each. 

239. Name four of the most important battles of the Revolution, and 
give name of opposing commanders in each. 

240. Make a positive statement about each of the following: Patrick 
Henry, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, J. Sterling Morton, John Hay. 

241. Discuss the causes that led to the second war with Great Britain. 



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242. What were the boundaries of the United States as determined by 
the Peace of 1873? 

243. Tell of the life and doings of William McKinley. 

244. Make a statement about each of the following: Stony Point, 
Arnold, Paul Jones, Valley Forge. 

245. Tell of the Embargo, and of Impressment. 

246. Most histories call New Orleans "a useless battle." Explain. 

247. Explain the so-called "doctrine of nullification." 

248. What amendments to the Constitution came as a result of the 
Civil War? 

249. State some important facts about each of the following: J. G. 
Cannon, James Russell Lowell, W. R. Harper, Folk, La Follette. 

250. Why were the European nations anxious to get to India in the 
15th century? 

251. Show how the claims of England, France and Spain overlapped 
during the colonization period. 

252. Name the colonies A\hich were founded as a refuge or an asylum, 
and give purpose of founding each. 

253. Tell of the capture of Quebec. 

254. Make a list of five important battles of the Revolution, give names 
of American and English generals in command, and tell v\^hich side won. 

255. What is a tax on foreign goods called, and what is the purpose 
C'f such a tax? 

25€ What is a strike, and how are strikes settled? 
257 Tell the story of Pocahontas. 
258. Review the exploration of LaSalle. 

259 Give an account of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
and state why it grew so rapidly during the reign of Charles I. 

260. Name an interesting event associated with each of the following- 
dates: 1492; 1607; 1776; 1820; 1863. 

261. Give the purpose and results of the Lewis and Clark expedition. 

262. Select any five of the following names and make a brief statement 
concerning each: Magellan, Raleigh, Wm. Penn, Lafayette, Robert Morris, 
Daniel Webster, Susan B. Anthony. 

263. What motive led to the founding of Maryland? 

264. Give an account of the discovery of the Mississippi River. 

265. What was the Stamp Act, and how did the Americans look upon it? 

266. How was George III connected with the independence of America? 

267. Name the first four presidents and mention an important event 
in the administration of each. 

268. Show the effect upon history of any two of the following: Cotton 
gin; Erie Canal; Squatter Sovereignty. 

269. Give an important event connected with each of the follow-ing 
dates: 1521, 1607, 1787, 1867, 1893. 

270. What states have been formed in whole or in part out of the 
Louisiana Purchase? 

271. Name and give the authors of three poems of merit, based on 
incidents in the history of the United States. 

272. What were the "Five Intolerable Acts"? 

273. Compare the conditions in the United States, at the close of the 
18th century, with the conditions at the present time in the following par- 
ticulars: (a) area; (b) population; (c) means of transporation. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 55 

274. Name five men who helped frame the constitution. 

275. What effect had the acquisition of Texas upon the slavery question? 

276. State the significance of the following terms as used in our 
political history: Tory, Rebel, Confederate, Federal, Blue Coat. 

277. What official position did Alexander Hamilton hold during the 
administration of Washington? Mention an incident in his career. 

278. Name five of the most important battles of the Civil War. 

279. What use can be made of maps in teaching United States history? 

280. How is Cuba governed at the present time? By what authority 
is it so governed? 

281. What was the so-called 'right of search and impressment"? 

282. Give the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and explain why 
the northern people opposed it. 

283. Name and discuss the most important event in Roosevelt's ad- 
ministration. 

284. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 

285. What events are suggested to your mind by the following dates: 
1492, 1607, 1776, 1812 and 1898? 

286. Describe one of the following: Battle of Trenton, Battle of Mon- 
mouth. 

287. Name four foreign noblemen who did valiant service for the 
Americans during the Revolutionary War. 

288. What presidents have died in office. Name the successor of each. 

289. Give two provisions of the Compromise of 1850. 

290. Who is the present Governor of Nebraska? the vice-president of 
the United States? the representative in Congress from your district? 

291. Name the war in which each of the following battles took place: 
Manila, Monterey, Monmouth, Duquesne, Thames. 

292. Give the year of each of the following: Settlement of Jamestown, 
Inauguration of Washington, Close of the Civil War, Admission of Nebraska 
as a state. Close of President Roosevelt's present term of office. 

293. Name the state and tell when each of the following nations made 
its first settlement in America: English, Dutch, Spanish. 

294. (a) What was the final decisive battle of the French and Indian 
war? (b) Who were the opposing commanders in this battle? 

295. Name three Americans who were prominent in inciting the colon- 
ists to rebel against the mother country. 

296. Give two financial measures advocated by Hamilton for raising 
a revenue and strengthening the credit of the nation. 

297. Name two commanders of, and two battles fought by, the armv 
of the Potomac. 

298. Tell who was president at the time of each of the following 
events: (a) The Mexican war. (b) Completion of the Erie Canal. (c) 
Overthrow of the United States Bank, (d) War with Spain, (e) Kansas- 
Nebraska bill. 

299. For what were each of the following women famous: Anne 
Hutchinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances E. Willard, Molly Pitcher? 
(Select any three.) 

300. Tell the story of Nathan Hale, or of Major Andre. 



56 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 



GEOGRAPHY 

1. Name the European country bordering upon the Atlantic that is 
most nearly in the same latitude with NebrasKa and compare the two with 
respect to climate and industries. 

2. Give an outline of what you would require an eighth grade class to 
master in a study of the geography of Nebraska. 

3. Make an outline map of Nebraska showing and naming: Three 
rivers in the state, three railroads across the state, and three towns located 
one on each of these roads. 

4. Give the distinguishing characteristic of each of the following 
religions: Jewish, Christian, Mohammedan. 

5. Name and describe three ocean currents that wash the shores of 
the United States. Give the effect of each on the climate of the United 
States. 

6. Distinguish between (a) rotation and revolution, (b) solar time and 
standard time, (c) solstice and equinox. 

7. What is the cause of rain? Name two regions that receive little or 
no rain and account for this condition in each case. 

8. Name in order of size the three largest river systems of Soutn 
America and give in general terms the territory drained by each. 

9. Name the principal seaport of the following countries and mention 
the chief export which is shipped from each: (a) Egypt, (b) Chile, (c) tne 
Hawaiian Islands, (d) the Philippine Islands, (e) Japan. 

10. The native forests of America are fast disappearing. Discuss the 
necessity for the proper preservation of our forests. 

11. Mention four conditions that may promote the growth and import- 
ance of a city. Give, by reference to an American city, a notable illustration 
of each condition. 

!12. Describe Italy as to climate, surface, agricultural products, manu- 
factured products, character of people, and chief cities. 

13. Mention desirable topics for special investigation to be assigned to 
a class about to complete the geographical study of England. Show the 
value of such special work. 

14. What two geographical conditions tend to make Europe more civi- 
lized than Africa? 

15. Define volcanic island; lagoon; marsh, fossil. 

16. What is the heat equator? 

17. Describe the monsoons. 

IS. Which is the most important ocean commercially? AVhy? 

19. Name five large islands generally included in the title "East Indies". 

20. Where is the hom.e of the yellow race? Give their chief occupation. 

21. Name a famous English river, an important French sea-port; an 
Italia^ riroduct: a Persian manufactured article; a South American cabinet 
wood. 

22. Give two characteristics of Nebraska streams or rivers. 

23. What is "dry farming" in Nebraska? 

24. Of what use are the state's agricultural experiment stations? 

25. Define: equator, latitude, altitude, climate, orbit. 

26. Locate the following: Ceylon, Constantinople, Andes, Berlin, Tiber. 
Tell what each is and for what noted. 

27. Explain what causes the difference between summer and winter. 

28. (a) Give limits of each zone, (b) Upon what general fact does the 



THE NEBRASKA QTTESTION BOOK. 57 

45. Name two food plants cultivated exrensively in Asia and two fibre 
plants (textiles) cultivated in America. 

46. Give the cliief characteristics of an absolute monarchy, a limited 
monarchy, a republic, a.nd name a government that will illustrate each of 
the above. 

4 7. Where and what are the following: Cairo, Hongkong, Tasmania, 
Zambezi, Brussels? 

48. Name Nebraska's two chief industries. 

49. What New England state is most nearly in the same latitude with 
Washington State? Which has the milder climate and greater rainfall near 
the coast? Why? 

50. What form of government is most common in each of the following: 
Europe, Asia, America, Africa? 

51. W^hat continent has most coast line for its size? Is tliere probably 
any relation between this and its civilizatio?i and, if so, what? 

52. Locate and tell what each of the following is: Vesuvius, Titicaca, 
Calcutta, Constantinople, Guam. 

53. Compare eastern and western Nebraska with respect to altitude 
and climate. 

54. Give location of Nebraska with respect to latitude and longitude. 

55. Name five leading exports of the United States; imports. 
56 Trace a shipment of wheat from Omaha to Liverpool. 

57. Name the zones. Locate each and tell how formed. 

58. xMame the great sections of the United States relative to products, 
division into zones depend? 

29. Name the mo.st important product of Louisiana; of Maine; of 
California; of Minnesota; of Nebraska. 

I.U. Name all the bodies of water a vessel would sail over in a voyage 
from Chicago to Odessa. 

31. (a) Name the three principal grain crops of the United States, 
and teil in which section each is raised; (b) Name the three principal 
mineral products and tell in which section each is found. 

32. Name five important points you would bring out in teaching the 
Geogrpphy of Nebraska. 

33. Name and locate two isthmuses. If important, state why. 
31. Name five countries of South America with their capitals. 

35. What does the Tropic of Capricorn mark? The Antartic Circle? 

36. What parts of the coast of North America are bathed by ocean 
currents? Name them. 

37. How does the life of mountain tops resemble that of the frigid 
zones? Why is this? 

3S. Where and how much would you change your watch in traveling 
from San Francisco to Chicago? Give reasons. 

39. What led to the early development .of manufacturing in New Eng- 
land? Name the other chief industries of this section. 

40. Give two reasons why Richmond, Virginia, has not become a great 
city like Philadelphia. 

41. Tell how the location for the equator is determined. 

42. Define volcano. Name and locate two well known volcanoes. 

43. Distinguish between flood plain, ana river basin or valley. 

44. Explain how prevailing winds affect rainfall. Give two instances 
where prevailing winds cause excessive rainfall. 



58 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 



59. What are winds and how are they produced? 

bO. What are ocean currents and how are they produced? Name two 
of the chief ocean currents. 

61. Write a brief description of Germany relative to occupations, its 
relative strength as a nation and its exports. 

62. What articles of commerce are received by the United States from 
China, Japan, England, Italy, Germany? 

63. Name the five largest cities of the United States. What gives 
each its importance? 

64. Name the chief inland natural highways of the United States. 

65. What is a meridian, parallel, delta? 

66. What determines each boundary of the torrid zone? 
67-. What causes ocean currents? 

68. On what continent does each of the following forms of govern- 
ment exist most extensively: Tribal, absolute monarcy, limited monarchy, 
republican? 

69. What continent or large islands are crossed by the Arctic Circle? 
The Tropic of Capricorn? 

70. Locate: Red Sea, New Guinea, Bering Sea, Lake Baikal, Gulf of 
• Guinea. 

71. What is the approximate size of Nebraska in square miles and how 
many counties in the state? 

72. What countries border on the Caribbean Sea? 

73. Bound North Dakota. Name its capital, largest city, and throe 
principal products. 

74. Name the five largest rivers of the United States. Give the gen- 
eral direction and body of water into which each flows. 

75. Discuss Hawaii as to location, climate, products, government, and 
population. 

76. What and where are the following: Mendocino, Caspian, Mada- 
gascar, Honduras, Sumatra, Suez, Buenos Aires, Corsica, Trinidad, Vesuvius. 

77. Bound, name two largest cities, and the products of Australia. 

78. Name and locate five peninsulas of Asia. 

79. What is the most northern, the most southern, the most eastern, 
the most western, and the longest country in South America? 

80. Where is the most fertile, the most arid, the wettest, the dryest, 
and the coldest portion of Nebraska? 

81= Name and locate three Indian reservations in Nebraska. 

82. How do we know that for long periods of time the sea extended 
over what is now Nebraska? 

83. What conditions of Nebraska climate do you regard as healthful? 
Unhealthful? 

84. Was it a good policy for the government to give settlers free 
homesteads in Nebraska? Why? 

85. Draw a map of Mexico and locate the capital and Vera Cruz. Also 
indicate the location of El Paso and San Antonio, Texas. 

S6. Name four of the leading cotton producing states. What climatic 
conditions does the growth of cotton require? 

87. Define: Trade winds, anti-trade winds. Make a drawing to 
illustrate the movement of the air in these four great wind belts. 

88. Name and locate five of the leading mountain ranges of the world. 

89. Name three articles that are exported from the United States, and 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 59 

tell what sectioiib ur the country produce them. 

90. What and where are the following: Danube, Erie, Andes, Hayti, 
Blanc, Good Hope, Etna, Caspian? 

91. Why does France, in the same latitude as the New England states, 
have a much warmer climate? 

92. Explain why there is so little rainfall in northern Chili. 

93. Name the four leading wheat states, the four leading corn states 
of the United States. 

94. Name and locate five natural wonder of the United States. 

95. Name and locate the five largest rivers in the world. 

96. What are the causes of Russia's lack of industrial development? 

97. What are the reasons for New Jersey being a market garden state? 

98. Draw an outline map of North America and on it show, with 
name, the location of each of the following: St. Lawrence River, Missis- 
sippi River, Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Delaware Bay. 

99. Locate the following bodies of water: Great Salt Lake, Japan Sea, 
Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, English Channel, Gulf 
of Bothnia, Bering Sea, Caspian Sea. 

100. Which European country has the best location for world com- 
merce? Why? 

101. Name ten agricultural products common to both the United State.s 
and Europe. 

102. If you were expecting to emigrate to South America in what 
country would you prefer to live? Why? 

103. What is the special value of the Hawaiian Islands to the United 
States? 

104. Mention the advantages and disadvantages of having no rain for 
several months at a time in Southern California. 

105. State some of the natural advantages that have infiuenced the 
growth of Chicago. Of San Francisco. 

106. In which part of North America is the great highland region? 

107. Name six of the principal farm crops of the United States and 
four important minerals, tell where each is produced. 

108. What are the principal products of western Canada? Locate 
three chief cities in Canada. 

109. What river forms part of the boundary between (a) South Caro- 
lina and Georgia, (b) Washington and Oregon, (c) Arizona and Nevada? 

110. (a) Locate Chile, (b) Describe its sea-coast, (c) Name two im- 
portant products. 

111. Where and what is each of the following: (a) Trinidad, (b) 
Tokio, (c) Dardanelles, (d) The Carpathians. 

112. (a) Name four countries in Europe that border on the Mediter- 
ranean Sea. (b) Name the chief city in each. (c) Mention the leading 
products, and the countries to which they are sent. 

113. Quito is located at the Equator. Havana is about due north and 
very near the Tropic of Cancer. What is the approximate distance between 
Havana and Quito? Explain fully. 

114. In what respects may the Japanese Empire be compared with the 
British Empire? 

115. Name the five leading coal states of the United States. 

116. What states would you cross or touch in passing in a straight 
line from Omaha to New York? 



60 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 



117. What continents touch the Arctic Ocean? The Atlantic Ocean "^ 

118. What are the principal rice producing countries of the world? 

119. What can you say as to the climate of the states of Washington 
and Oregon? Give the reasons for this conditon. 

120. Name the bays, gulfs and seas that bound Europe. 

121. Bound Minnesota. Give its capital, largest city and three prin- 
cipal products. 

122. For what are the following cities famous: London, Berlin, The 
Hague, Paris, Rome, Athens, Moscow, Geneva, Jerusalem, Venice? 

123. Draw a map of Nebraska, locating its ten principal cities. 

124. What is the smallest county in Nebraska? The largest? Tiie 
most populous? The most central? Most northwestern? 

125. In what three zones is North America? What oceans border on 
North America? 

126. What is a slope? Which part of the Atlantic slope is hilly? 

127. Name the three great cotton regions of the wuxlJ. Name three 
ports that ship cotton. 

128. What is made of wheat? Name and locate the greatest grain 
market of the world. 

129. Name three things for which the state of Iowa is especially 
noted. 

130. What lake forms a part of the northwestern boundary of Penn- 
sylvania? What large island south of Connecticut is part of New York 
state? 

131. What great river flows through Austria-Hungary? What two 
countries are in part separated by the Carpathian mountains? 

132. Name all the countries that are engaged in the European war 
together with their capitals. 

133. What gulf on the western coast of Africa? What large island 
east of the southern part of Africa? What channel? 

134. (a) What are the tides? (b) i ov/ often do they occur? (e) 
What is a probable cause of tides? 

135. (a) Draw a circle representing the earth. Draw lines represent- 
ing the parallels which divide the earth into zones, state the width of 
each zone in degrees. 

136. Distinguish between latitude and longitude. 

137. Define the following terms: Gulf, strait, a divide, cape, river 
basin. 

138. Locate the following and tell what each is : Tokio, The Hague, 
Morocco, Buenos Aires, Bering, Caucasus, Thames. 

139. Sketch a map of Nebraska showing approximately the locations 
of the following topographic regions: Loess region, sand hill region. Bad 
Lands, High plains region. 

140. Name four sections of the United States and give two leading 
occupations of the people of each. 

141. Distinguish between rotation and revolution of the earth. 

142. Give two good reasons for building the Panama Canal. 

143. What natural boundaries separate Europe from Asia? 

144. What and where are the following: Hood, Key West, Quebec, 
Honduras, Orinoco, Etna, Madrid, Okhotsk, Melbourne, Congo. 

145. Discuss the oyster as to places where found; manner of produc- 
tion; and manner of taking. 



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146. Name eight principal products of Calif oinia. 

147. Trace the Ohio river, naming all states it touches or i.asntjs 
through. 

148. In what direction are the following cities and towns from Lincoin: 
Omaha, Nebraska City, Norfolk, Columbus, Beatrice, Fremont, North Platte, 
Hastings, Peru and Kearney. 

149. Name the largest country in South America; the smallest; the 
narrowest; the one without sea coast and the most northern. 

150. For what are the following cities of the British Isles noted: 
London, Sheffield, Nottingham, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Liver- 
pool? 

151. Name the coffee raising countries of the world. 

152. Name three effects that mountains have on climate. 

153. What and where are the folloAving: Kalamazoo, St. Clair, Mon- 
treal, San Salvador, Horn, Dublin, Land's End, Ganges, Manila, Verde. 

154. Name capitals of the states bordering on the Atlantic. 

155. Name and locate five natural wonders of the United States. 

156. Name the great lakes in the order of their size, beginning with 
the largest. 

157. What building materials are made or found in Nebraska? 

158. Discuss Porto Rico as to location, climate, inhabitants, products 
and government. 

159. Name ten animals and birds native to Africa. 

160. Upon reaching Long Pine, Alliance, North Platte, or McCook, you 
must change your watch one hour. Will it be later or earlier? Give 
reasons. 

161. Define: Equinoxes, solstice, zenith, latitude, longitude. 

162. What kind of government has Great Britain, Russia, Cuba, France 
and Germany? 

163. Why is China so isolated? How has this characteristic reflected 
itself in the people? 

164. Name and locate the state educational institutions of Nebraska. 

165. Give suggestions for the first lessons in geography. 

166. Give latitude of following points: (a) Tropic of Cancer; (b; 
Arctic Circle; (c) North Pole, (d) W^hat place is in longitude zero and 
latitude zero? 

167. Name and define two motions of the earth, and tell effect of each. 

168. (a) Give origin and direction of Gulf Stream. (b) Name some 
countries whose climate is modified by it. 

169. What kind of government has Turkey, Norway, Brazil, Switzer- 
land, Porto Rico? 

170. (a) What is the cotton producing section of the United States? 

(b) What other countries produce it abundantly? 

(c) Where are the principal wheat producing regions of the world? 

171. Name the races of men in the order of their rank of civilization. 

172. What and where are the following: Manchester, Guam, Colon, 
Honolulu, Vatican? 

173. Starting east from the Prime Meridian, what land and what 
oceans are crossed by the Equator? 

174 C.-.mnare the efficiency and the justice and the opportunities 
under the government of Great Britain with those under the government of 
the United States. 



62 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

175. Including wealth, manufactures, commerce, possessions, power, 
and civilization, which do you consider the greatest country of Eurasia? 
Give reasons for your answer. 

176. In not more than ten lines, give the principal features of the 
surface and drainage of Nebraska. 

177. What and where are the following: Danube, Hongkong, Port 
Arthur, Vesuvius and Venezuela? 

178. Name the most important harbor of the Atlantic coast of the 
United States. Why? 

179. What do you consider the chief results to be attained in the 
teaching of Geography? 

180. Define erosion, basin, delta, cyclone. 

181. What is the earth's size, shape, movement? 

182. Compare France and Germany in (a) size, (b) products, (c) man- 
ufactures, (d) people, (e) government. 

183. Contrast the achievements of the Caucasion race with those of 
any other one race of men. 

184. Distinguish between export and domestic trade. 

185. What and where are the following: Baltic, Havana, Madrid, 
Calcutta, Yokohama? 

186. State the causes of salt lakes; icebergs. 

187. What physiographic conditions contributed to the location and 
growth of St. Paul and Minneapolis; Duluth? 

188. Name and locate three important railroads in Nebraska. 

189. What is meant by arid? Sub-humid? 

190. Define: (a) Archipelago; (b) plateau; (c) pole. 

191. Name four rivers of Europe. Tell v> here they rise, in what 
direction they flow, and into what body of water they empty. 

192. Give one distinguishing characteristic for each of the three chief 
races of mankind. 

193. Draw a map of Nebraska showing five rivers and five leading 
towns. 

194. Where and what are the following: (a) Aden; (b) Auckland; 
(c) Ceylon; (d) Yukon; (e) Tasmania? 

195. Name the European countries that touch the Mediterranean Sea. 

196. Define: Savagery, barbarism, civilization. 

197. Name two states of the union noted for the production of oranges, 
tobacco, and salt. 

198. In making a voyage from St. Louis to St. Petersburg, name in 
order the bodies of water passed through. 

199. Give the chief agricultural products of Nebraska, and tell where 
each is produced. 

200. Explain why counties are smaller in the eastern than in the 
western part of Nebraska. 

201. Make a list of products obtained from cattle. 

202. Explain the following terms: Equator, tropic, strait, glacier. 

203. What is commerce? What is barter? 

204. How do we know that the shape of the earth is spherical? What 
is a spheroid ? 

205. Define eauatorial calms; cyclones; monsoons. 

206. Define the five most populous countries of Europe, the capital 
city, and form of government of each. 



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207. Where are raiiroads numerous? Where few? 

208. Give the area of Nebraska in square miles. 

209. Why should every citizen know how to read a weather map? 

210. What purpose is served by map drawing? 

211. What is the origin of soil? Upon what does the depth of soil 
depend? 

212. Give the kinds of government that characterize each of the five 
races. 

213. Locate and describe, as to soil composition, the loess region of 
Nebraska. 

214. Explain why China has wonderful possibilities in industrial de- 
velopment. 

215. Where and what are the following: (a) The Hague, (b) Hamp- 
ton Roads, (c) Ganges, (d) Genoa, (e) Sault Sainte Marie? 

216. What is meant by the term Netherlands? What has been done 
to reclaim this region? 

217. Name live important food plants of the world, and tell where 
each is cultivated extensively. 

218. Why is the jungle so dense along the Amazon? (Two reasons.) 

219. Bound New Mexico. Give its capital, largest city, and three 
principal products. 

220. Name and locate two National Parks and tell for what they are 
noted. 

221. Discuss the Philippines as to location, climate, products, govern- 
ment, and population. 

222. Through what bodies of water would you pass in going by boat 
from Omaha to Buffalo, N. Y.? 

228. Name four rivers in Africa. Tell in what general direction and 
into what water each flows. 

224. Name and locate five big islands lying near to Europe. Tell to 
what country each belongs. 

225. Locate Mexico City, Vera Cruz, and Tampico. What is the form 
of government in Mexico? 

226. Which of the races has shown capacity for self-government? 
Which race is tribal in government? 

227. Where and what are the following? Select three. Tundras, 
Madagascar, Mocha, Arel, Baikal, Barcelona, Cologne, Marmora. 

228. New England and Ohio are great manufacturing regions. What 
natural causes have helped to develop each? 

229. Compare island, peninsula, and isthmus. 

230. What are the two leading beverage plants of the world? Where 
raised, and what part is used for beverage? 

231. Name the six continents in order of size. 

232. What is paganism, and how does it differ from Christianity? 

233. What seas are on the border of or within Russia? 
5^34. Give the four chief occupations of civilized men. 

235. (a) Name four articles exported in large quantities from the 
United States, (b) Name four articles imported in large quantities. 

236. Give provisions for public education in Nebraska. 

237. Define volcano. Locate two that are active. 

238. Where are the following cultivated extensively: sugar cane, 
grapes, rice, coffee, tea. 



64 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

239. What is kerosene? Where and how is it obtained? 

240. Where and wnat are the following: (select three) Mindanao, Lena, 
Tasmania, Congo, Azov, Mandalay? 

241. Compare Prance and Italy as to (a) government, (b) products, 
(c) area, (d) population. 

242. Name a raising coast, also a sinking coast. Give distinguishing 
characteristics of each. 

v43. Give the chief occupation of semi-civilized people. 

244. Compare Great Britain and Russia as to (a) government, (b) 
area, (c; popu ,iiie>u, (d) power. 

245. Nam- -.:;au locate two cities famous for the manufacture of iron; 
two that expoji cotton; and two that manufacture Hour. 

246. Define equinox, watershed, meridian, monsoon, latitude. 

247. Give cause of day and night, the cause of seasons. 
24>^. Give the cause of tides. 

249. What kind of government has Mexico, Spain, Canada, Russia, 
Denmark? 

250. What are the chief agricultural products of the United States? 
France? Brazil? British India? Russia? 

251. Where and what are the following: (Select five) The Deccan, 
Manchester, Vatican, Mt. Vernon, Halifax, Baikal, Aden, Mecca. 

252. Give the determining causes of the occupation of the people of 
eastern, central and western Nebraska. 

253. Give suggestions for the use of pictures in teaching geography. 
2t)4. Why is a knowledge of the topography of the state essential to 

the studying or teaching of the geography of Nebraska? 

255. Where is the cotton belt in our country? Name two states 
which export larFP ouantities of cotton; tell through what ports this cotton 
is shipped and to what countries it is principally sent. 

256. Define and give example to illustrate peninsula, isthmus, conti- 
nent, hemisphere, longitude. 

257. What and where are the tundras? 

258. What Island possessions in the Pacific Ocean has the United 
States? Why are they valuable? 

259. Locate five of the following islands and state to what country 
each belongs, and why each is a valuable possession: Java, Luzon, Trini- 
dad, Jamaica, Zanzibar, Algeria, New Zealand. 

260. Tell one thing for which each of the following cities is especially 
noted: Chicago, Venice, St. Petersburg, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro. 

261. What waters are famous for oyster-fishing? For salmon? 

262. Name the rivers draining the Arctic slope in Eurasia. 

263. '^ame the great saline lakes of the world. Why are they found 
only in dr. climates? 

264. Wuich is the leading race in the world in numbers? In com- 
merce? In power? In art? In intelligence? 

265. Give the location of the U. S. Military Academy, U. S. Naval 
Academy, National Park, Harvard University, three U. S. mints. 

266. Explain how latitude and longitude affect the time of sunrise. 

267. What kind of government has Great Britain, Russia, Cuba, France 
and Germany? 

268. Account for the location of Rio Janeiro. What are the chief 
exports ? 



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269. Name the countries suggested by these words: Dikes and 
wooden shoes, the famous Krupp guns, the Mikado, steppes. 

270. Which of England's possessions in Asia is most valuable to her? 
Give one reason for your answer. 

271. In what part of Africa is ostrich farming an important industry? 
What minerals are found in that region? 

272. Name an American city noted for each of the following: Meat 
packing, manufacturing of flour, smelters, fresh oyster market, cotton 
market. 

273. Locate the Great Basin. What is peculiar about the streams in 
the Great Basin? Explain. 

274. Where in South America do we find the pampas? What occupa- 
tion is carried on there? To what markets are the products of that region 
shipped? 

275. Name five land features that you could teach a geography class 
by taking them out for a field trip. 

276. Name five soil regions of Nebraska and give something of the 
industrial value of each. 

277. Draw an outline map of Nebraska, locating three rivers, the 
capital, and three other cities. 

278. Explain v/hy corn is not raised extensively in New England, New 
Mexico, California and Alberta. 

279. Locate five of the following and tell what each is: Pyrenees, 
Colon, Crimea, Sahara, Hawaii, Pelee, The Hague. 

280. Define: Delta, estuary, promontory, metropolis, bad lands. 

281. Define alluvial fan, flood plain, canon, butte, cataract. 

282. What and where are five of the following: Black Hills, Cape 
Colony, The Steppes, New Zealand, Suez, Panama, Nome? 

283. Where are the following industries important: (a) mining 
anthracite coal, (b) raising sugar beets, (c) sand dredging, (d) sheep 
raising, (.e) milling of flour. 

284. Account for the location of New York City, Chicago, San Fran- 
cisco, St. Louis, Panama Canal. 

285. Give three proofs that the earth is round? 

286. Distinguish between tornado and cyclone and illustrate by draw- 
ing the two forms of the latter. 

287. In general, from what direction do the moisture bearing winds 
come, which give Nebraska its rainfall? 

288. For what are ten of the following cities noted: Wilkesbarre, 
Pittsburg, Waltham, Washington, Birmingham, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, 
Minneapolis, Atlantic City, Annapolis, Boston, Butte? 

289. What do you consider the best method of teaching land forms 
to children? 

290. Name the three greatest wheat regions of the world. 

291. Compare the "sand hill" and "loess regions" as to (a) size, (b) 
vegetation, and (c) rivers. 

292. Give the probable origin of the Bad Lands. Write a brief de- 
scription of that region. 

293. Describe the Platte river. 

294. Draw a map of the New England states, locating their capitals 
and their important rivers. 

295. Name five of the leading coal producing states. 



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296. Show by a drawing the directions one would travel in going by 
water from Omaha to Pittsburg. Name the rivers of the route and locate 
and name three large cities by which one would pass. 

297. Name three of the great iron producing centers of the world. 

298. Give width in degrees of each of the zones. 

299. Locate and tell for what the following cities are noted: Minne- 
apolis, New Orleans, Washington, Salt Lake, Boston, Seattle, Key West, 
St. Louis, Denver, Omaha. 

30C What portions of Nebraska are drained by the Loup, the Elkhorn, 
the Niobrara, the Republican, and the Platte, respectively? 

PHYSIOLOGY 

1. Name the salivary glands and give their location. 

2. What is the function of the lacteals? Of the liver? Of the kidneys? 

3. What disease of the kidneys is common among men who drink 
alcohol? 

4. What is a food? Name three common articles of diet that are not 
foods? 

5. Name and describe the respiratory organs. 

6. How would you explain to children the injurious effects of alcohol 
on the tissues of the body? 

7. What is the function of ligaments? Name each kind. 

8. What is the function of the vaso motor nerves? 

9. Name some of the effects of the use of alcohol on the tissues. 

10. How would you stop a severe nose bleed? What causes the blood 
to stop of i\< own accord? 

11. Mentun three physiological causes that may hinder a pupil's pro- 
gress in school. How may each be removed? 

12. What elfect will poor ventilation have upon the pupil? 

13. Name some plays that you think beneficial to pupils and give 
reasorxS. 

14. How is a broken bone repaired? 

15. What is a sprain? A dislocation? A fracture? A concussion? A 
convulsion" 

18. How long is the alimentary canal? Name three of its parts. 

17. Describe the movements of the stomach. What is the result? 

18. Define pyloris, ptyalin, spleen, duramater, patella, arbor-vitae. 

19. Discuss the structure and composition of the bones. 

20. What changes does the blood undergo in the lungs? 

21. Give the structure, location and function of the stomach. 

22. Define: Arteries, veins. 

23. What is the office of the liver? 

24. Locate and dc-scribe the brain. 

25. How is the eye protected? 

26. What is a narcotic? Name the principal ones. 

27. What effect has alcohol upon the brain? 

28. Name the coininonest principles of hygiene that everyone shoitld 
practice. 

29. What is the pulse? What is its normal rate and what the normal 
temperature of the body? 

30. Give the proper position of the body in standing and sitting. Why 
is this important in children of school age? 



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31. Name three games best suited for the physical development of 
children from ten to fifteen years. 

32. Do playgrounds assist in physical development? How? 

33. What should be the temperature of a school-room? How should 
it be taken? 

34. Name two common foods that contain proteids. (b) Two common 
foods that contain carbohydrates, (c) One common food that contains fat. 

35. Give three leading arguments in favor of medical inspection of all 
schools. 

36. (a) Give three contagious diseases common among school children, 
(b) Give three symptoms that will justify a teacher in sending a child 
home for inspection. 

37. How do the teeth affect the general health of the entire system? 
What disease of the teeth may be used to prove this and what precaution 
may prevent its ravages? 

38. Draw a diagram of the heart and principal blood vessels. Name 
each part. 

39. What is a secretion? An excretion? Describe mucous membrane. 

40. What is nature's provision for purifying the air? 

41. Describe the structure of the skin. How may the skin be kept 
in a healthy condition? 

42. How are the muscles fastened to the bones? Locate the biceps 
muscle. 

43. What effect has the use of tobacco on the body? 

44. What and where are each of the following: Duodenum, aorta, 
vomer, biceps, medulla oblongata? 

45. Give reasons why food should be thoroughly masticated. 

46. Discuss briefly the treatment of tuberculosis. 

47. Name and give function of three digestive juices. 

48. What is the office of the perspiratory glands? Where are they 
located? 

49. Why does one feel stronger immediately after taking alcoholic 
stimulant? Why is not this condition lasting? 

50. Trace sound from the external ear to the inner. 

51. Give three differences between voluntary and involuntary muscles. 

52. Describe the lachrymal apparatus. Explain how the eyeball is 
moved. 

53. Why is the blood red in the arteries and blue in the veins? 

54. What is ptyalin? What is its function? 

55. Describe the stomach, stating location, function, size and shape. 

56. Name the parts of the ear and illustrate by means of a drawing. 

57. What change does the blood undergo in the lungs? 

58. What are the active elements in tea and coffee? 

59. Discuss the 'structure and compositign of bones. 

60. Where is the cerebrum located? What are its functions? 

61. Name three organs of secretion and the juices they secrete. 

62. Draw a cross section of a tooth and name the parts. 

63. Name the different kinds of muscle. Describe each. 

64. What is the lymph? What is its function? 

65. Describe the effects of tea and coffee upon the nervous system. 

66. Name the organs of excretion. 

67. How are the joints lubricated? 



68 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

68. Make a drawing of the eye and name the parts. 

69. What artery carries venous blood? What vein carries arterial 
blood? 

70. Define physiology, anatomy, hygiene. 

71. What is the importance of exercise? What is the danger of eat- 
ing under-done pork? 

72. Why should a child be sent home from school if he has a sore 
throat, headache or fever? 

73. Describe the structure of a hair by means of a drawing. Name 
the parts. 

74. What is the function of the sebaceous glands? What is cartilage? 
Tendons ? 

75. Does alcohol increase of decrease the temperature of the body? 

76. Which use of tobacco do you dislike the more, smoking or chewing, 
and why ? 

77. Explain the general structure of the bones. How does nature 
mend a broken bone? 

78. What is a sprain? How should it be treated? 

79. Classify as to the five general divisions of foods: Potatoes, lean 
meat, beans, butter, molasses. 

80. Explain the need of deep breathing. 

81. Name three topics in hygiene that should be impressed on school 
children. 

82. What is meant by the portal circulation? 

83. Name the organs of the nervous system. 

84. Name and describe the organs of the voice. 

85. How is the heat of the body generated? By what means is it 
distributed? 

86. Name the coats of the eye. 

87. Define a tissue. Name some tissues. Define a system. Name 
four systems of the body. 

88. What is a food? Which of the food stuffs are necessary to life? 

89. What organs are located in the abdominal cavity? What is the 
peritoneum? 

90. Name the parts of the blood. Give four facts about red corpuscles. 

91. Give the parts of the respiratory system. Describe the trachea. 

92. What is meant by "special sensations?" Name the organs which 
receive only certain kinds of impressions. 

93. What is transfusion of blood, and is it practical? 

94. How do the muscles give rise to motion? Into what two groups 
may muscles be divided? 

95. Give examples of levers of the first, second and third classes as 
found in the human body. 

96. How are foods classified? Give an example 'of each class. 

97. What is the pancreas? Its function? 

98. How many bones in the human body? What is the structure of 
bones? 

99. Define anatomy; physiology; hygiene. 

100. What is the main support of the skeleton? Describe it. 

101. What is a sprain? A dislocation? 

102. What are the intestines? What is their work? 

103. What are some of the effects of alcohol upon the kidneys? 



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104. Is tobacco a food? '\Miat is its influence upon youth? 

105. WTiat effect has alcohol upon the mental and moral powers? 

106. What is the great work of hygiene? 

107. (a) Give reasons why garbage, refuse and decaying waste should 
never be allowed to accumulate, (b) WTiat does a careful housewife do 
about garbage? 

108. (a) Why is water from a lake unsafe? (b) How can sewage get 
into a well? (c) Why should plumbing be kept in good condition? 

109. (a) WTiat has science proved about the connections between the 
mosquito and malaria? (b) Between the barnyard and the fly? 

110. (a) WTiy should milk be clean, cold and fresh? Mention two 
ways in which harm may come through microbes in milk. 

111. In case of a severe cut, how could you tell whether the cut was 
of an artery or a vein and where would you compress a bleeding artery to 
stop its flow? And when a vein? 

112. (a) Of what is blood composed? (b) \Miat effect has the quality 
of blood upon the general health? 

113. What two processes of nutrition are intimately connected with 
the circulation of blood and lymph? 

114. How are the bones held together and what is a dislocation? 

115. What are adenoids? At what age may they be detected? How? 
What should be done for them? WTiy? 

116. How many teeth has man and how divided? What care do the 
teeth require ? 

117. What are nerves? How classified as to their function? 

118. What are salivary glands and their functions? 

119. What are three desirable qualities in clothing? How does clothing 
regulate the heat of the body? 

120. Name the different layers of the skin and give functions of each. 

121. Trace the course of the blood from the right auricle through the 
greater circulation. 

122. How would you stop bleeding from a vein? From an artery? 

123. Give directions for fumigating a room. For ventilating. 

124. WHiat simple rules of health would you suggest for a person who 
desired to make the body vigorous and the mind strong? 

125. Name the special senses and their particular organs. 

126. Of what is blood composed? What are its uses? 

127. What are organs of digestion? 

128. WTiat is food? Why is a mixed diet necessary? 

129. Explain the structure and function of sweat glands. 

130. What is the use of muscles? Name and define the two classes 
of muscles. 

131. What is the function of the outer ear? The middle ear? Inter- 
nal ear? 

132. Contrast the results of teaching hygiene merely from a book, 
with the results from teaching it as a lesson in nature study with reading 
references. 

133. How would you teach a class the harmful effects of the use of 
tobacco? 

134. Why is it desirable to drink plenty of Avater at meal time, and 
what caution should be observed in the matter?. 

135. Mention five distinct practices that will tend to relieve one from 



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the danger of catching colds? 

136. Why is it even more important to have the air of a school room 
in motion, than to have fresh air? Give specific reasons, however, why 
fresh air should be supplied. 

137. How would you present the subject of teeth-brushing to a class 
of fifth graders in a way to develop the proper habit in the pupils them- 
selves? 

138. Why is excessive drug-taking undesirable? Why take drugs at 
all? Give three specific objections to taking ordinary patent medicines. 

139. What other single article of food already prepared for the table 
would you recommend to be used with each of the following foods re- 
spectively in the making of a well balanced meal, and why: (a) Meat, (b) 
potatoes, (c) beans, (d) fried eggs, (e) rice? 

140. Locate definitely five different places in which in the course of 
the circulation of the blood it undergoes important and distinct changes 
and tell what the specific change is in each instance. 

141. Briefly describe how you would develop for fifth or sixth grade 
pupils a lesson on sprains and their treatment. 

142. Name and locate five important bones in the body. 

143. How does the structure of a voluntary muscle differ from that 
of an involuntary muscle? 

144. Why is water so important an article of food? 

145. Tell where each of the following is secreted: Bile, gastric juice, 
pancreatic juice. 

14(). Locate and describe: The pulmonary veins, the capillaries, 
semilunar valves, the aorta. 

147. Name four cranial nerves and tell what function each serves. 

148. Describe the inner ear. 

149. Tell what care should be given the skin, and explain how its 
care or neglect makes us more of less susceptible to colds. 

150. Name the organs and fluids of the digestive system. 

151. Classify the following food substances as nitrogenous or carbon- 
aceous: Fat, albumen, starch, sugar, casein. 

152. What are bacteria? Name some diseases due to bacteria. 

153. Why does the body need food? What can you say of eggs as a 
food? 

154. Describe the stomach. How does alcohol affect the stomach? 

155. Why should we drink much water? How may any water be made 
safe for drinking? 

156. What is the poison in tobacco? How does the smoking of tobacco 
harm a young person? 

157. How does the blood get its oxygen from the air? 

158. Give the uses of the skin. 

159. Name three kinds of joints. Of what are bones composed? 

160. (a) What is a tendon? (b) How does exercise affect the muscles? 

161. Why should we avoid breathing through the mouth? 

162. What are adenoids? How do they affect the development of a 
cniiar What is the most conspicuous evidence of their presence? 

163. What serious disorders may arise from uncared for teeth? 

164. What is the first thing to be done in combating the ravages of 
any of the terrible epidemics? 

165. How is the disease of typhoid fever communicated? 



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166. Name the three principal parts of the brain. What is the func- 
tion of each ? 

167. What is a reflex action? What organs are concerned in a reflex 
act? What does each organ do? 

168. What is the use of the red corpuscles in the blood? Of the 
white? 

169. What is the purpose of cooking food? Why are different kinds 
of food needed ? 

170. Describe the act of inspiration. Of expiration. 

171. Define: Cell, tissue, organ. 

172. Give a brief description of the nervous system and tell its uses. 

173. Name the parts of the alimentary canal. 

174. Name the digestive juices and tell where they are made or 
secreted. 

175. What are the organs of circulation? 

176. Define external respiration, internal respiration. 

177. How does the skin help to regulate the temperature of the body? 

178. Distinguish between anatomy, physiology and hygiene. 

179. Distinguish between ligament, and tendon as to use. 

180. Trace the circulation of the blood through the body from the 
time it leaves the right ventricle until it enter the right auricle. 

181. Describe the process of digestion of starchy food. 

182. (a) What is respiration? (b) What changes result from the act 
or acts? 

183. (a) Name two diseases often contracted by drinking impure water; 
(b) two methods of purifying water. 

184. State two rules of hygiene which should be observed in the school 
room; (b) two that should be observed at home. 

185. (a) Define coagulation and state its use. (b) Trace the pulmon- 
ary circulation. 

186. What is meant by "reflex action of the spinal cord?" 

187. Why, in apoplexy, when the right side of the body becomes para- 
lyzed, is the left side of the face usually affected? 

188. Explain, briefly but clearly, just how yeast makes bread rise. 

189. Locate the femur, sternum, frontal, tibia and humerus. 

190. Why are flies dangerous to health? 

191. What symptoms indicate the presence of adenoid tissue? 

192. Explain the difference between the structure of arteries and veins. 
What effect does alcohol have upon the circulatory system? 

193. What would you do with one of your pupils who had just fainted? 

194. (a) Give good sanitary method of sweeping and dusting a school 
room. (b) Give argument against having open water pail and common 
drinking cup in the school room. 

195. Give anatomy, physiology and hygiene of teeth. 

196. (a) What are tendons, — their function and position? (b) Locate 
the tendon of Achilles. 

197. WHiat are proteids? Name four foods containing them in large 
per cent. 

198. Define sensory, motor, and cranial nerves. 

199. Of what different substances are bones composed? Does the pro- 
portion of each vary with age? Explain. 

200. Name and locate four prominent muscles. 



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201. (a; Name three foods rich in starch. (b) Are tea and coffee 
foods? 

202. Explain the terms insalivation and deglutition. 

203. Describe the circulation of the blood. 

204. (a) Compare the functions of the skin and the kidneys. (b) 
Does tne amount of work done by each vary? Explain. 

205. Locate: (a) The ulna, (b) clavicle, (c) radius, (d) phalanges. 

206. What are condiments, and of what use are they? 

207. Explain how the absorption of food by the blood takes place. 

208. Why is bathing necessary as an aid to the work of the skin? 

209. What are the bad effects of tight clothing? Explain. 

210. How does the use of tobacco undermine character? Explain. 

PENMANSHIP 

1. Give some devices for securing interest in writing. 

2. At what time of day would you give the writing lesson? 

3. Which of the systems of penmanship do you teach? Give reasons. 

4. Give your plan for using the copy book. 

5. Describe a method of securing rapidity in penmanship. 

6. Write a few movement exercises and state in what grade or grades 
you w^ould use them. 

7. In correcting illegible, slovenly writing, to which would you attach 
the more importance, increasing the practice, or stimulating a greater 
mental effort? 

8. If a pupil's writing is too fine or too coarse, what means may be 
employed to remedy the evil? 

9. How much time should be devoted daily to the Meriting exercise in 
a rural school? 

10. Define muscular movement. State its advantages. 

11. Discuss form and movement in the different grades and give the 
relative attention each should receive. 

12. Classify the letters of the alphabet according to the number of 
spaces above or below the base line. 

13. When should the children begin to write with pen and ink? 

14. What is the correct position for writing? 

15. Why should the letter forms for younger pupils be larger than 
those for pupils of higher grades? 

16. Explain two exercises for developing speed. 

17. Name three results that you seek to obtain in penmanship. 

18. (a) What do you consider the most important characteristic of 
good penmanship? (b)How would you lead your pupils to attain it? 

19. (a) Name three common faults of writing, (b) State how they 
may be overcome. 

20. Give rules for spacing between letters and words. 

21. What kinds of class drill would you employ to secure freedom of 
movement? 

22. Why should beginners make large letters? 

23. What relation have position and pen holding to the character of 
the writing? 

24. Make a copy of the capitals and small letters of the system you 
teach. 

25. Explain briefly your methods in teaching (a) beginners; (b) more 



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advanced pupils. 

26. As a specimen of your penmanship, write some memory gem. 

27. State definitely what should be done the first year in penmanship. 

28. Do you insist upon a definite position in writing exercises? Why? 

29. Name five points to be considered in estimating the excellence 
of the pupil's work in wanting. 

30. Discuss briefly the importance of each of the following elements 
of good writing: Legibility, rapidity, neatness. 

31. (a) Of what shouuld the penmanship recitation consist? (b) If of 
different exercises, what part of the period should be devoted to each? 

32. What reasons can you give for the daily systematic teaching of 
penmanship in the public schools? 

33. Explain the use of counting in teaching v^^riting. 

34. Give three movement drills, using a different motion for each drill. 

35. How would you avoid or overcome the slow, labored, fingered 
movement so common among school children? 

36. How may the body be benefited or injured by exercises in pen- 
manship? 

37. How may the teacher establish rythm in handwriting? 

38. Write the following: 

"What you would have appear in the nation's life, you 
must introduce in the public schools." 

39. Give examples of three movement exercises followed by a line of 
capital letters illustrating each exercise. 

40. In what order should the nine digits be developed? 

41. Discuss the value of a writing lesson for exercise in self-control, 
attention, accuracy, and artistic finish. 

42. Give the correct position for holding the pen. 

43. Before requiring pupils to practice any drill or letter, what pre- 
liminary steps should be pressed upon their attention? 

44. What preparation have you made to teach penmanship? What 
system did you use in your preparation? 

45. Name three common faults in writing. How may these faults be 
overcome? 

46. Wliat two aims should be recognized in teaching writing? How 
are these aims to be acquired? 

47. To show your conception of how they should be formed, carefully 
write: (a) The nine digits, (b) the small or lower case letters, (c) the 
capital letters. 

48. (a) The principal movements used in writing are the finger, fore- 
arm, and combined. Describe each. (b) By way of illustration, give 
specific directions concerning form and movement for the practice of one 
of the above movements. 

49. Define muscular movement in writing, and give some device for 
acquiring an easy muscular movement. 

50. State how a teacher may stimulate an interest in penmanship. 

51. Should a pupil in learning to write be confined to lines? Sub- 
stantiate your position. 

52. Write the characters upon which the small letters are based. Of 
what principal elements are these characters composed? 

53. How would you deal with a pupil who wants to write with the 
left hand? 



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54. Write an exercise valuable for training in making the capital 
letters. 

55. Write the capital letters as you would present them for a copy. 

56. Write the capital stem letters; the capital loop letters. 

57. (a) What four things are brought about by muscular movement? 
(b) How may muscular control be secured by pupils? 

58. What are the questions that should constantly occur to you as 
soon as the automatic muscular movement has been established? 

59. Give a good rule for finding the correct position of the right arm 
on the desk for writing. 

60. Make a line across your paper of the push and pull exercise. 
Make one of the indirect oval exercise. 

61. Give directions for writing on the black-board. 

62. It is usual in primary grades to use large, soft pencils. What 
advantages have they? 

63. Discuss: "Children write poorly in the common schools today 
because penmanship is poorly or carelessly taught." 

64. What would you recommend as the best system of penmanship? 
Why? 

65. Discuss briefly the importance of each of the following: Legibility, 
rapidity, neatness. 

Q6. What is the muscular movement in writing and what are its 
ad\'antages? 

67. What advantages has the vertical system of writing over the slant? 
Affirm or deny. 

68. Do you approve of the use of copy books? Why? 

69. How do you account for the fact that there are so few people 
today who "write a good hand"? 

70. Give directions for correct position in writing, as to body, arm 
and hand. 

71. Name the essential steps in the teaching of penmanship. 

72. Illustrate three different movement drills that you use; one line 
across the page for each. 

73. Write the figures to show proper spacing and relative position. 

74. Suggest means of securing the rate and uniformity of speed that 
you desire. 

75. Give an exercise you would use in the seventh grade and tell 
definitely what you would use it for. 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

i. Write the abbreviations for: merchandise, namely, lieutenant, credit. 
Attorney General. 

2. Syllabify and mark the accented syllable diacritically in each of the 
following words: machine, Colorado, granary, merchant, corporal. 

3. Write homonyms of these words: altar, ought, marshal, earn, 
quarts. 

4. Define derivative, monosyllable, suffix, diphthong, synonym. 

5. W>ite five compound words; five primitive words. 

6. Which exercise should be more frequent, written or oral spelling'' 
Why? 

7. How should the written exercises be corrected? 



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8. Define: Synonym, homonym, antonym. 

9. Give abbreviations for Legislature, gentlemen, post-office order, 
bachelor of laws, amount. 

10. Give two general rules for spelling and a word to illustrate each. 

11. In the following list some words are spelled correctly and some 
incorrectly. Re-write, spelling all correctly: (25 credits) 



gorilla 


neccessary 


comparativ 


bureau 


grammer 


quadrille 


buisiness 


etiquette 


sieze 


woolly 


enough 


judgement 


separate 


liesure 


Chicamauga 


Britian 


audible 


musilage 


Panama 


alfalfia 


superseed 


ventelate 


icycie 


inteligent 
artillery 



12. Define: Vowel, consonant. 

13. Write the following words and give a synonym of each: Cheer- 
ful, pleasure, discipline, defective, entice. 

14. Syllabify and give diacritical markings of the vowels in each 
of the following words: Inquiry, advertisement, frontal, coupon, lapel. 

15. Syllabify and mark the accent in each of the following words: 
formidable, illustrate, genuine, contumely, inquiry. 

16. Give correct abbreviations for the following: Captain, Depart- 
ment. Superintendent, Numbers, Secretary. 

17. Write sentences containing the following words and their hom- 
onyms: mane, wait, cede, I'll, hoard. 

18. Define prefix, suffix, affix, vowel, consonant. 

19. Give three uses of the apostrophe in the spelling of words. 

20. Some of the following are correct, some incorrect. Re-write, 
spelling all correctly : 

chieftian arraign calcium discipline 

judgement ecstasy untill government 

diphtheria changeable indispensable polotics 

analysis movable phlegm leutenant 

recieve blamable Febuary stationery 

advertisment ladys Artie turkeys 

babys 

21. What is a derivative word? Form three using different prefixes. 

22. Give two markings for each of the vowel sounds other than the 
long sounds and show each marking in a word. 

23. Write the plural of the following words: Knife, glass, valley, 
sentry, lasso. 

24. Define capital, capitol; accept, except; pole, poll; meet, mete; 
key, quay. 

25. Divide into syllables and mark the accent: Pendulum, rhetoric, 
effeminate, deliberation, vernacular. 

26. Give the proper abbreviations for the following: Last month, 
Member of Congress, merchandise, bachelor of laws, debit. 

27. Write sentences containing the following words and their homon- 
yms: Wait, vale, faint, medal, fare. 

28. Explain the manner in which you think the best results may be 
obtained in spelling. 

29. Define and give example of each: Synonym, homonym, vowel, 
consonant. 



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30. State clearly what you think to be the best method of teaching 
spelling to an eighth grade. 

31. Give two general rules for spelling, illustrating the use of each. 

32. Write the plural of the following words and give the rule that 
applies: Story, church, sheep, half. 

33. Give the diacritical markings of the following words, also syllabify: 
almond, concentrate, patron, thieving, inquiry, coupon, criticize, banana. 

34. Give synonyms of each of the following words: pleasure, defective, 
empty, diligence, employee, happy, worth. 

35. Write sentences containing the following words and their hom- 
onyms: Earn, buoy, cede, pair, awl. 

36. Write the plural for the following words: Solo, lady, roof, loaf, 
class. 

37. What is a suffix? Give two examples. 

38. Mark the silent letters in the following words: victuals, towards, 
science, often, heirs, gnaw, eyesight, acknowledge, awkward, and thorough. 

39. Write the present active participle of study, shoot, singe, trace, 
sin, sign, tan, and carve. Give the rule that applies to each of the last two. 

40. Give the meaning of each of the following affixes, and a word 
illustrating each: circum, sub, er, trans, and ness. 

41. In the following list some words are spelled correctly and some 
incorrectly. Re-write, spelling all correctly. 

appeal culmery miniture missinform 

appall excel incalauble seminary 

aispice emmigrant Inexhaustible suprise 

canceil liquiry perceive potatoe 

costume lodgroent statment tranquility 

chieftian milage sugar thieving 

vegetable 

42. Why are rules of so little advantage in learning to spell words in 
the English language? 

43. Construct sentences containing the following words used correctly: 
aviary, iniquity, human, literally, wrest, stationery, stationary, verdict, 
capitol, climax. 

44. Write possessive singular and plural of: I, she, who, ox, son-in-law. 

45. Write abbreviations for the months. 

46. Illustrate two uses of the hyphen and three uses of the apostrophe. 

47. Use in sentences: Accept, except; immigrate, emigrate; inspiration. 

48. Give two rules for forming derivatives by adding suffixes. 

49. (a) What are diacritical marks? (b) Give four and illustrate their 
use. 



50. Re-write the following words, 
galantry 
inocense 
memorandam 
recieved 
pluricy 
analysize 



;pelling all correctly: 
arraign hemorage 



catastrophy 

theif 

onion 

civillian 

ectasy 

naw 

larseny 

51. Distinguish between accent and emphasis. 

52. Define (a) syllable, (b) diphthong. 

53. Define primitive word (simple), compound word. Illustrate each. 



blamable 
Great Britian 
gorgeous 
committy 
govenor 



lethurgy 

crystalise 
bycicle 
Poultice 
saillable 



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54. What is a derivative word? Form three, using different prefixes. 
56. Define prefix, suffix, diphthong. Illustrate each. 

56. What is a silent letter? Give an example. Give one use of silent 
letters. 

57. Give the meaning of each of the following affixes, and a word 
illustrating each: anti, un, ly, pre, less. 

58. Give the rule for marking the first vowel in the following words: 
Hopping, tubbing, robbing, patting, sitting. 

59. Give meaning of the following affixes, and a word illustrating each: 
Ante, de, trans, con and re. 

60. As compared with each other what are the following pairs ol 
words called ? 

(a) commence, begin. 

(b) Bear, bare. 

(c) go, come. 

61. (a) Define the prefix in and give three forms which this prefix may 
tal^e. (b) Give words to illustrate the three forms that you have given 
to the prefix in. 

62. (a) Give and name five of the more common diacritical marks, 
(b) Illustrate a correct use of each mark given. 

63. What can you say of the meaning of such words as (a) harmony 
pnd concord? What are such words called? (b) early and late? What 
are such words called? 

64. Analyze the following words by giving the meaning first of the 
parts and second of each word as a whole: harmful, remove, invert, 
famous, harmless. 

65. Give the diacritical marking of the vowels in the following sen- 
tence: "The pansy has a greater variety of names than any other flower." 

66. What names are applied to words of one, two, three, four, and more 
than four syllables. 

67. Give the rule for spelling derivatives formed from words ending 
in "y". 

68. (a) Write three words containing prefixes and two words contain- 
ing suffixes, (b) Give the meaning of each prefix used. 

69. Mark the long vowels, indicate the sounds of the c's and cross 
out the silent letters in the following sentences: 'We sometimes find 
courtesy, courage and real strength lacking where we would have the 
right to expect it." 

70. Write a sentence of not more than ten words, separating the 
words into syllables and indicating the accent. 

71. Define (a) accent; (b) emphasis. 

72. What is spelling? Syllabification? Word analysis? Accent? 

73. Define and give an example of each of the following: Prefix, 
suffix, compound word, monosyllable, primitive word. 

74. Write each of the following words in a sentence: Affect, practic- 
able, expect, complement, stationary. 

75. Spell the following words with the suffixes added, and give rules 
for change in the spelling: early-f-est, manage+ing, drug-|-ist, hand-j-full, 
peace+able. 

76. Separate the following words into syllables, and mark the accented 
syllables : Cipher, finance, evident, Iowa, secretary. 

77. Define the following prefixes, use in words and define the words 



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so formed: Un, semi, mono, post, pre. 

78. Write synonyms for truth, charity, opulence, approximately, appro- 
priate. 

79. Write the following words and after each its plural: (a) his, (b) 
j5olo, (c) analysis, (d) cupful, (e) valley. 

80. Write words for which the following stand: pp., D. C, Jr., e.g., 
Messrs. 

81. Divide into syllables and mark the accent: Preferable, genuine, 
vehement, Arabic, condolence. 

82. Write and define five words from the primitive word dainty. 

83. Give the rule for forming the possessive of singular and plural 
nouns. 

84. The vowel "a" has seven sounds. Give five of them with appro- 
priate examples, using the diacritical marks to indicate the sound. 

85. Use in sentences so as to show the meaning: Coral, choral; 
capital, capitol; quay, isle; caret, carat; statue, statute. 

86. Write at least two synonyms for each of the following: Scent, 
unite, scorn, soothe, scene. 

87. Write the following words and after each its plural: Penny, 
potato, solo, cupful, analysis. 

88. Divide into syllables and mark diacritically : Mischievous, poly- 
technic, tonsilitis, hospitable, literature. 

89. Give two synonyms for each: Humorous, stalwart, frail. 

90. Define and give examples of vowels, consonants, diphthongs, 
homonyms, 

91. What should a class know about a dictionary in order to make 
satisfactory use of it? 

92. Give the diacritical markings of the following words, also syllabify: 
Separate, senate, banana, idea, surd, almond, criticize. 

93. Give four rules for forming the plurals of nouns. 

94. Define and give examples of a prefix, a suffix and an affix. 

95. Write the plurals for the following words: Solo, beau, ox, sheep, 
knife and lady. 

96. Write and define two words each containing the following prefixes: 
Ante, post, retro, epi, micro. 

97. Distinguish between phonetic spelling and letter spelling. 

98. What is word analysis? 

99. Distinguish between articulation and enunciation; vowel and con- 
sonant; prefix and suffix; diphthong and triphthong; primitive and deriva- 
tive word. 

100. Give some device which you have found most successful in teach- 
ing spelling. 

101. Spell correctly: 



several 


architect 


tarifi 


Rendesvous 


laberatory 


stationary 


matress 


sasafras 


baloon 


athletic 


sheriff 


Miselto 


geography 


convenience 


juicy 


orchids 


sistem 


rusle 


diseaze 


Agast 


misspelled 


object 


license 


banana 


equipage 


resess 


salad 


gossimer 


semetary 


influence 


allready 


incapible 


conscience 


ilustrated 


Parafine 


granadeer 



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critical 


prophet 


cereal 


disconsolate 


suitible 


unison 


irasible 


argument 


Amizon 


armour 


position 


abscess 


sythe 


potatoes 


gnaw 


requisite 


pyriamid 


cemmetery 


guise 


obtuse 


tradition 


frontere 


criticize 


bereave 


sufficient 


fulfill 


Bengamin 


concede 


inquisative 


perilous 


syllable 


typhoid 


correspond 


supreme 


capitol 


apostle 


condesend 


drownd 


decease 


pulley 


foreighn 


address 


illusion 


blaspheme 


irresistible 


lemon 


depot 


tapestry 


wonder 


magizene 


pharynx 


medal 


wander 


benevolence 


account 


acquittal 


receed 


amusement 


rabbit 


sugar 


disappear 


parliament 


robin 


Philipines 


secretary 


independant 


judgment 


wierd 


defference 


rudements 


liquor 


peasent 


urgent 


grammar 


fulfill 


tarif 


busy 


physiology 


February 


vacaum 


immediate 


governor 


quality 


neumonia 


believe 


professor 


senator 


utensel 


receive 


traveler 


cellar 


predeccessor 


axle 


Dacteria 


necessary 


oportunity 


truly 


kerosene 


chief 


villianouh- 


skillfull 


hygiene 


audible 


nasturtium 


suficient 


tuition 


forceable 


treatice 


visions 


restaurant 


villain 


oracal 


predacessor 


physician 


shepherd 


neccessitties 


plausible 


irregular 


shingle 


proffesor 


righteous 


medicine 


allusion 


tyrranize 


alltogether 


senator 


petition 


zealious 


certain 


repentance 


sphereical 


unanimous 


daily 


relieve 


skeen 


politision 


enough 


gasoline 


remedy 


tomatoe 


shoulder 


cultivator 


vilian 


orchestra 


weather 


potatoes 


tragedy 


writing 


meant 


compel 


strategy 


opake 


tonge 


rebelled 


accidentily 


voluntier 


vilage 


granary 


farthest 


paralell 


princaple 


biscuit 


fiery 


croquet 


straight 


debtor 


indespensable 


pleurisy 


schollar 


bureau 


dissatisfy 


recommend 


Ashia 


believe 


strategy 


physician 


Louisiana 


scholar 


eminate 


camphor 


Deleware 


secede 


perilous 


auxiliary 


conquerer 


reverse 


salai y 


Connecticut 


chafes 


chimneys 


expense 


pianist 


salads 


veracity 


speak 


battlement 


victles 


prominent 


seive 


accomplishment 


skewer 


vehement 


maintain 


axcident 


agreeible 


electricty 


dying 


intemporance 



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educate 

rather 

guide 

careful 

advertizement 

adjustible 

experiment 

extra vigant 

boycott 

hosiery 

commercial 

biennial 

barbecue 

patient 



abridgment 
caucus 
eruption 
judgment 
mutilate 
notary 
kangeroo 
manufactur 
em migrate 
persuasion 
co-incidence 
culinery 
deferance 



diagonel 

enunciasion 

extemporaneous 

furnase 

inditement 

autamobile 

rheaumatism 

quantity 

persecute 

courtesy 

chocolate 

chloroform 

reversible 



appreciate 

bulliten 

celliloid 

antiguty 

artesion 

seperate 

maturety 

denomenate 

adjustment 

Misouri 

grenidiers 

toboggan 

timerus 

vigorous 



ENGLISH COMPOSITION 

1. Supply the proper punctuation marks in the following sentence: 
Science declares that no particle of matter can be destroyed that each 
atom has its place in the universe and that in seeking that place each 
obeys a certain fixed law. 

2. In about two hundred words, compare a day's work on a farm in 
■summer with that in winter. 

3. Write each of the following words in a sentence: plaintiff, 
(-ligible, tenant, parallel, utensils. 

4. Write a formal acceptance to an invitation to an evening reception. 

5. Write a letter to the U. S. department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C, requesting that your name be placed on the mailing list for the 
bulletins on horticulture, cattle, or soil culture. 

6. Use these words in sentences: Rise, raise, blue, blew, write, 
right, tear, tier. 

7. Write correctly: There were several obstacles to be overcome 
my handwriting was bad and my language was very incorrect but nothing 
could daunt this excellent man he secured specimens of my rhymes and 
dispersed them, among his friends and set on foot a subscription for my 
benefit. 

8. How would you prepare your pupils for writing a composition on 
corn? 

9. Give six rules for the use of capitals. 

10. Write correctly: all that glitters is not gold — Shakespeare. Write 
correctly: what is meant by "The spirit of the west?" 

11. Make an outline for a biographical sketch of Abraham Lincoln. 

12. "When I was a boy I worked my way down the river to New 
York, to see the city. I met a bishop there. He said to me, 'Sit down 
my son, I want to talk to you. I know your father in Albany. You are 
Senator Whipple's son.' I said to him, 'no sir, I am not Senator Whipple's 
^^on. I am no relation of his.' If the bishop had talked to me after that 
he might have made my life a little easier— a little sweeter." 

(a) What mistake did the bishop make? 

(b) How did the boy get to the city? 

(c) What were his worldly circumstances? 

(d) How was he different from Senator Whipple's son? 

(e) What did the bishop do after he found his mistake? 

(f) What trait of character do you find in the boy? 



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(g) WTiat trait of character is revealed in the bishop? 
Prove your answers by quotations from the selection. 

13. "The side door of the house opened; a weeping woman came out; 
and with her was a tall Confederate Colonel of cavalry. Gallantly giving 
her his arm, he escorted her as far as the little gate, where she bade 
him good bye with much feeling. With an impulsive movement he drew 
some money from his pocliet, thrust it upon her, and started hurriedly 
away that he might not listen to her thanks. Such was his pre-occupa- 
tion that he actually brushed into Stephen, who was standing beside a 
tree." — The Crisis. 

(a) What is the first act from which we infer the presence of 
of a sympathetic trait in the Colonel's character? 

(b) Wliat was the woman's attitude of mind toward him? 

(c) Why did the Colonel not stay to hear her thanks? 

(d) "With an impulsive movement, he drew some money from 
his pocket, thrust it upon her, and started hurriedly away." What 
does this suggest to you as regards the man? ^Tiat does it suggest 
to you as regards the woman? 

(e) ^\Tiat happened to the Colonel as he hurried on? 

(f) MTiy did he not see Stephen? 

14. How w^ill you assist pupils in acquiring a wide or extensive 
vocabulary? 

15. Write sentences illustrating the difference in meaning of the fol- 
lowing synonyms: Abstain, forbear; character, reputation; custom, habit; 
difficulty, obstacle; think, believe. 

16. Rewrite the following, supplying the proper punctuation marks: 
Hes a comical old fellow said Scroogs nephew thats the truth and not so 
pleasant as he might be however his offenses carry their own punishment 
and I have nothing to say against him. 

17. Illustrate in original sentences the correct use of the comma, 
semi-colon, colon, dash, single quotation marks. 

18. The fields are brown, the sky a leaden gray, the trees are leafless, 
with the exception of a few stray rattling tufts; there is no song of birds, 
and the bleak wind whistles mournfully. (a) What time of year is it? 
(b) How do you know? 

19. Make an outline of the topics to be considered in teaching letter 
writing. 

20. Punctuate and capitalize the following: A traveler ran from his 
bed to examine the weather by mistake he opened the glass door of a 
cupboard instead of a window landlork cried the astonished man this is 
very singular weather the night is dark as egypt and smells of cheese. 

21. Give five rules for the use of capitals, and illustrate each by a 
sentence. 

22. Write a letter to some publishing company, asking to have the 
address of your paper or magazine changed. 

23. Make a list of words corresponding to the following in pronun- 
ciation, but differing in spelling: session, canvass, sealing, current, 
counsel. Illustrate the differences in meaning. 

24. Write a list of five words, each of which, without change in spell- 
ing or pronunciation, may be used in two or more distinct significations. 
Illustrate, 

25. Use correctly in original sentences the following words: Prin- 



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ciple, expedient, eminence, impetuous, awful. 

26. Tell by effects that it has been raining; that the man is old; 
that it is spring. 

27. Write a brief description of a landscape. 

28. Write a brief description and character sketch of some distin- 
guished person whom you have met. 

29. Write a brief description of a street scene. 

30. Narrate some interesting school incident (not more than ten lines.) 

31. Prepare an outline for a debate on the equal suffrage question, 
choosing your own side. 

32. Tell how you would make one of the following articles: Bread, 
cherry pie, a birdhouse, a sled, a kite, or other article of your own 
selection. 

33. Give the principal rules for the use of the comma, the semicolon, 
the colon, interrogation point. 

34. What is a compound sentence? Give an example. 

35. What is a regular verb? An irregular one? Give examples. 

36. How is the possessive of nouns in the singular formed? In the 
plural ? 

37. Correct the following: 

(a) He don't like it. 

(b) One of you are mistaken. 

(c) This book is different to that. 

(d) You can confide on him. 

(e) She told all of we girls. 

38. Correct the errors in the following: 

(a) He screamed like he was hurt. 

(b) After having rapped twice, a lady came and said I should 
go upstairs. 

(c) He admitted that his team out-weighed us, but did not think 
that explained their victory alone. 

(d) He don't know who came. 

(e) They laid down on the grass. 

39. Explain the following terms as relating to paragraphing: Topic 
sentence, margin, indentation. 

40. Write a paragraph using the following topic sentence: "The front 
platform was filled with people." 

41. Write sentences to illustrate the correct use of the following: 
Emigration, immigration; principal, principle. 

42. Illustrate and explain fully the distinction between direct and 
indirect quotations. 

43. Write a complex sentence. 

44. Correct the following sentences : 

(1) He came in for to have a talk. 

(2) I was prevented going. 

(3) Where was you? 

45. What is meant by a collective noun? An abstract noun? An 
antecedent? 

46. Give a definition of each of the following words by means of a 
complex sentence: Defeat, home, football, school, behavior. 

47. Improve the following sentences: 

(a) John gave Thomas some money; he is very well off. 



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(b) Giving two peaches to the boy, he asked for a third. 

(c) The boys disputed and quarreled. 

48. Write a paragraph using one of the following: 

(a) Compare (or contrast) a violet and a buttercup. 

(b) Compare an ant and a bee. 

(c) Contrast a moth and a butterfly. 
Write from your own observation only. 

49. Explain and illustrate the distinction between a dependent and 
an independent clause. 

50. Correct the following sentences: 

(a) They two quarreled among each other. 

(b) There comes the boys. 

(c) I want every one of you to decide for themselves. 

(d) He fell from the bridge in the water. 

(e) There is several reasons for this. 

51. Define a verb. What is the difference between a transitive and 
an intransitive verb? Give examples. 

52. Write a brief composition telling what your chief ambition is. 

53. For what is the apostrophe used? Give examples. 

54. Complete these sentences, underlining the correct form: 

(1) Such a man as (he or him) should do better. 

(2) Let (he or him) who knows her best, tell her. 

(3) I cannot (learn or teach) him the knack. 

(4) (Can or may) I speak to you? 

(5) If you feel ill (lay or lie) down. 

55. Illustrate three different offices of a noun clause. 

56. These sentences are ambiguous. Correct them: 

(1) She told her mother that she would always remember her 
friends. 

(2) He said to his friend that, if he did not feel better soon, he 
thought he had better go home. 

57. Differentiate between the use of like and as; among and between. 

58. Write a brief composition on "The Ideal Teacher in Country 
Schools." 

59. What is the proper salutation for a business letter? A letter to 
a personal friend? 

60. Give the general rule for the use of who, which and that. 

61. Re-write the following sentences, supplying proper punctuation 
marks : 

(a) Beware of the man who says I am on the eve of a discovery. 

(b) Art is long says Longfellow and time is fleeting. 

(c) The following metals are found in California gold silver 
and copper. 

62. Write for your local paper a notice of a school entertainment, 
giving time, place, nature and admission. 

63. Write a composition of not more than 100 words on the best 
method of improving the rural schools of Nebraska. 

64. Distinguish between the use of "shall" and "will". 

65. When should the colon be used? Give examples. 

66. Supply the proper word in the following: 

(1) If John (were or was) here, we could go. 

(2) Between you and (I or me), I hate it. 



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(3) Such a man as (he or him) should do better. 

67. Quote a four line stanza of poetry and change it into prose, 

68. Correct any errors in following-: 

(a) He set down after setting the hen. 

(b) Wanted a cat by a woman, with long fur, apply to Mrs. 
Brown. 

(c) John told his father that he could not see plain. 

(d) I would love to do so, 

(e) She just wore the swellest clothes. 

69. Write sentences showing the correct usage of the words: Assert., 
claim, maintain, state, using all as verbs. 

70. Give five important uses of the comma. 

71. Write salutations for a business letter; letter to a dear friend; 
letter to a mere acquaintance. 

72. Express your opinion briefly on "The Use of Slang.'" 

73. Correct the following: 

(1) He don't do it. 

(2) I will do like she does. 

(3) It was different than he was used to. 

74. Define description and give three essential elements of a good 
description. 

75. What should eighth grade pupils know about paragraphing? 

76. Of what value is a summary in a debate? 

77. What is a transition? Give five transitional expressions. 

78. Define: exposition argumentation, rhetoric, clause. 

79. What directions as to punctuation and paragraphing would you 
give a class about to start a composition made up mostly of conversation? 

80. Punctuate the following: Go to the window and say I want to 
see the man who said come here if you want help. 

81. Re-write correctly the following, taken from an answer paper in 
this subject: "In making bread I would first save the potatoe water from 
potatoes boiled that day then put in one 4th cup of sugar add one cake 
of yeast that has been dissolved in luke warm water then add flour to 
make a soft sponge leave till the next morning then mix in flour to make 
dough also put in level Tea spoon of salt." 

82. Discuss the value of oral composition. 

83. Distinguish between the following: an oration, an address, an 
essay. 

84. In each of the following blanks supply the correct form of some 
pronoun : 

(a) does she look like? 

(b) do you take me to be? 

(c) did you say called today? 

(d) Will you let Mary and ■ go? 

(e) He said Mary and could go. 

(f) The man house was robbed gave the alarm. 

(g) You don't mind staying. 

(h) The invitation was sent to those ■ he thought would 

come. 

(i) They say it was who ran aw^ay. 

(j) I know it to be . 

85. Define: Essay, autobiography, figure of speech. 



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S6. In the following sentence supply suitable adverbs: 

A true friend advises , assists , ventures , bears 

all , defends , and continues a friend . 

87. Re-write the following sentences selecting the correct synonym. 

(a) Did the failure (affect, effect) your business? 

(b) I (expect, suppose) you have a great many difficulties, 

(c) That (emigrant, immigrant) is from Italy. 

(d) The student asked the teacher for a (recommend, recom- 
mendation.) 

(e) The officer (suspected, suspicioned) that he was guilty of the 
crime. 

88. Correct the following sentences and give reason for each cor- 
rection : 

(a) He would not believe we girls. 

(h) I wonder which of the two do better v^'ork. 

(c) I only recited one lesson. 

(d) Whom do you think she is? 

(e) He was more active than any other of his companions. 

89. Define (a) paragraph; (b) synonym; (c) simile; (d) biography, 

90. Write sentences containing an antonym of (a) tranquil; (b) 
dilatory; (c) pliable; (d) adjacent; (e) promote. 

91. Write sentences containing the following words followed by pre- 
positional phrases: Confer; adverse; involve; tendency; exonerate. 

92. Change the prepositional phrase to a posessive in each of the 
following: 

(a) The quarters of the soldiers, 

(b) The boots of the men. 

(c) The books of somebody else. 

(d) The poems of Burns. 

(e) The reign of William and Mary. 

93. Correct such of the following sentences as need to be corrected 
and give reasons for each correction: 

(a) Neither the doctor or his assistant was present. 

(b) I like those kind of apples. 

(c) Any member of the church may cast their vote. 

(d) Students like you and me have to work hard. 

(e) He never has, and I fear he never will be, fond of reading. 

94. Write sentences using each of the following punctuation marks 
correctly: Comma, colon, dash, hyphen, parentheses. 

95. Give five common errors in the use of language to which teachers 
should give special attention. 

96. Correct the following sentences and give reason for each cor- 
rection : 

(a) Every one of these are good in their place. 

(b) Money, as well as men, were needed. 

(c) London is larger than any city in Europe, 

(d) They that are dilligent I will reward. 

(e) This state was north of Mason's and Dixon's line. 

97. Use the following words in sentences: Lay, lie, sit, set, take 
and taken. 

98. Use shall or will in the following sentences and give your reason 
for the use of each: 



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(a) You have all the money you need for the enterprise. 

(b) We not submit any longer to this nonsense. 

(c) I am disgusted with his extravagance; he not have 

another dollar. 

(d) How we ■ manage without any light is the question. 

99. Write a conversation between two young ladies, so as to show 
that one of them is very ignorant of county life, or if you prefer, you 
may show that she is very ignorant of city life. 

100. Develop a composition of at least one hundred words on the 
topic, "Timidity is the cause of great unhappiness." 

THEORY 

1. What are the conditions of perfect memory? 

2. How may the powers of the mind be developed? 

3. Name the evils of written examination. How can these be avoided? 

4. Would you allow the child to commit the text to memory? Why? 

5. Name three factors determining attendance. Discuss one. 

6. Name three instinctive desires of the child. Show how one of 
these can be used in education. 

7. What are the dangers of requiring a large amount of writing in 
lesson preparation? (You should be able to name three.) 

8. What right have you to teach? Be explicit. 

D. Should a teacher stand while conducting a recitation? Why? 

10. Why should the teacher have a knowledge of Snsychology ? 

11. Discuss men versus women as teachers. 

12. Discuss the comparative responsibility of the school versus the 
home in the moral training of children. 

13. What are the advantages of the child in the rural school as 
compared with those of the child in the city school. 

14. What are the objects of the recitation? What is the teacher's 
part? The pupil's part? 

15. Mention three things you would look for to determine whether 
you had been successful in teaching primary reading. Primary numbers. 

16. Name and classify under each of the following headings three 
books that you have read: (a) Educational, (b) cultural, (c) informa- 
tional. 

17. Why should a teacher be careful of her personal habits? 

18. Do you consider the giving of prizes a proper incentive? Why? 

19. Should a teacher dismiss school as promptly as she opens it? 
Why? 

20. Make a list of five important qualifications of a teacher. Tell 
briefly why you consider each important. 

21. How may memory be strengthened? 

22. Does industry have any effect upon moral development? Discuss. 

23. Why should a teacher have confidence in her ability to govern? 

24. If a pupil is doing poor work in school, what is the duty of 
the teacher to the parent? 

25. What is the value of play as a hygienic factor? 

26. Why is good health a requisite for a good teacher? 

27. Give and discuss one good reason why the teacher should teach 
the pupils how to study. 

28. Discuss the necessity of daily study for the teacher. 



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29. Why does a well qualified teacher usually hold the attention of 
the classes? Discuss. 

30. Name three points which should characterize the exercise of 
authority. 

31. Why should the words in primary readers be "household" words, 
or words with which the child is already familiar? 

32. Why is school government a necessary part of the school pro- 
cess? Give three reasons. 

33. How would you deal with a child partially deaf? One with poor 
eye-sight? 

34. Arrange five school incentives in order, from good to bad. Dis- 
cuss the use of one. 

35. Give three ways of arousing interest. 

36. An eminent educator says: "Very little, if any, writing should 
be done in the first four grades." How, then, could language be taught? 
Is he right? Why. 

37. How would you pass classes to and from their seats? How do 
you dismiss school? Why? 

38. What three considerations come in to determine the punishment 
to be used in discipline? 

39. Discuss the teacher's use of the textbook. 

40. Why are superintendents used in education? What is the teach- 
er's relation and duty to the superintendent? His duty to her? 

41. Is corporal punishment ever justifiable, and, if so, in what in- 
stances? What is the teacher's legal as well as moral right in this 
mode of punishment? 

42. What do you consider proper school incentives? Improper school 
incentives? 

43. Name seven school virtues. 

44. Express your judgment of the relative school value of the living 
teacher and the text book. 

45. What is the relative value of mental and written arithmetic and 
how much time should be given to each in the school program? 

46. Make out a daily program for one of the following: Rural school, 
primary school or grammar school. 

47. Should it become necessary for a teacher to neglect either class 
instruction or the supervision of pupil's recreation period, which is pre- 
ferable, and why ? 

48. What is the purpose of (a) tests? (b) reviews? (c) examinations? 

49. State your understanding of the "Honor System." Does it seem 
practicable to you? 

50. What is the purpose of (a) the study period? (b) The recitation? 

51. What is attention? Classify as to degree. 

52. What is the value of committing simple poems to memory in the 
primary grades ? 

53. What is routine? How established? What advantages has it? 

54. Is it cowardly for an adult to take a stick to a little child? Why? 

55. What are three real tests of a good school? 

56. How far should a child's motives determine a teacher's action? 

57. Why should a school have discipline? For whose sake? 

58. What is a device? When is its use permissible? When should 
it be abandoned? Why? 



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59. How should spelling be taught? Why? 

60. What has bodily comfort to do with school government? 

61. Classify under the heads "mental" and "physical" the conditions 
determining attention. 

62. Show exactly how you would work out the definition of a 
"fraction" in the arithmetic class. 

63. Discuss the advantages of letter writing as a composition exer- 
cise. Give three advantages. 

64. Give three evils of the prize system. 

65. Make three distinct and truthful statements as to the effect of 
the teacher's voice on discipline. 

66. Discuss the use and abuse of praise. Say all you can that is 
pertinent. 

67. Give three ideal means of getting your wages raised. 

68. How should every recitation begin? Why? Give two reasons. 

69. Take sides on the question: "Should a teacher ever keep a child 
after school?" and give three arguments to support your position. 

70. Give two things necessary before there can be mental growth. 

71. Why should elementary history be largely biographical? 

72. What part has each of the five special senses in learning? 

73. Would you repress or cultivate a child's will power? How? 
Why? 

74. What is imagination? Its relation to education? 

75. How and when should a lesson be assigned? Why? How long 
should it be? 

76. Give a list of the most important things to be done the first day? 

77. In what three ways does the "good nature" of a pleasant teacher 
affect the school? 

78. Give three reasons why you do or do not believe in giving marks 
on the percentage plan. 

79. How should the teacher dispose of her waking hours? 

80. What is the purpose of the school? 

81. What is meant by good order in school, and how should we 
strive to obtain it? 

82. When would you assign the lesson? What are some of the 
essential directions you would give in assigning the lesson? 

83. How would you overcome continued absence, tardiness, indiffer- 
ence, laziness? 

84. How would you handle timid pupils, dull pupils, discouraged 
pupils, poor pupils? 

85. What attention would you give to country life object teaching? 
Illustrate by reading lessons, composition work and arithmetic. 

86. What are the requisites of a teacher as to character, personal 
appearance, education and training? 

87. How do the personal habits of a teacher affect her pupils? 

88. What do you consider the proper academic qualifications of a 
teacher for an elementary school? 

89. What means would you suggest for exciting interest in study? 

90. How may school reviews or examinations be made to serve the 
best interest of the school and of the individual pupil? 

91. Explain what is meant by the "spirit" of the school. 

92. In teaching a subject, what is the value of review? How should 



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a review be conducted? Should reviews occur at stated times or when 
subjects are completed? 

93. What, in your judgment, is the real purpose of the school? 

94. Is it true that good teaching and good discipline go hand in 
hand? 

95. Relate briefly how you would deal with an irate parent who 
comes to the school and attempts to upbraid you before the school. 

96. If you had a pupil in school who made it his business to incite 
others to disobedience, what method of procedure would be in order? 

97. Give a brief discussion of the cigarette habit among school boys 
and what privileges has a teacher in attempting to break it up? 

98. Should you find a boy carving his desk with a knife, what would 
you do about it? 

99. State how you would deal with a boy or girl who persisted in 
telling falsehoods. 

100. Define three of the following: Knowledge, instruction, training, 
culture, education. 

101. State your notion of scholastic and personal qualifications of a 
good teacher. 

102. What should be the chief aim of school discipline and govern- 
ment? 

103. Name three ways (according to Colgrove if possible) in which 
scholarship aids the teacher. 

104. Colgrove names five ways in which a teacher may improve 
professionally. Name three of them. 

105. Give five maxims you would have your pupils commit to memory. 

106. Of all subjects taught in our schools, which is the most im- 
portant? Why? 

107. Briefly express your opinion of the following: "Spare the rod 
and spoil the child." 

108. (a) Distinguish between drill and review. (b) Which is the 
more important? 

109. What is psychology? How does it i.id the teacher? 

110. Name two undesirable results that are likely to follow the offer 
of prizes for excellence in scholarship. 

111. Discuss the disadvantages of having many "iron-clad" rules. 

112. Name a book suitable to read to children, and mention the 
particular benefits to be derived from it. 

113. Give a plan for introducing the subject of verbs to a class. 

114. How would you treat a child who dislikes grammar? 

115. How could you inculcate patriotism in your pupils? 

116. Show the value of sympathy on the part of the teacher. 

117. Show how the health of the teacher may influence the school. 

118. Which is of more value to the teacher, knowledge of subject 
matter or knowledge of child nature? Discuss. 

119. What is the duty of the teacher to (a) the ever-confident? (b) 
The self-distrustful? 

120. Why is it essential to teach correctly bodily positions in reading 
classes? 

121. What use should be made of the texi book in primary classes 
in geography? 

122. In teaching history what powers of mind should be developed? 



90 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

123. What is meant by the topical method in teaching history? 

124. Describe the personality of the ideal teacher. 

125. Why should society provide for protecting youth from errors? 

126. Why should teachers not participate in questionable amusements? 

127. In teaching reading what is (a) the word method? (b) The 
sentence method? 

128. Why should the pupil be required to revise his own incorrect 
expressions? 

129. In recitations, why should a teacher avoid asking pupils ques- 
tions that can be answered by yes or no? 

130. What means should the teacher employ to secure neatness in 
the class-room? 

131. Briefly state what academic preparation you believe should be 
made for the position of (a) rural teacher, (b) intermediate teacher. 

132. Give a list of ten words in spelling for the fourth grade and 
tell how you would assist the class in studying them. 

133. What use of drill would you make in teaching arithmetic? 

134. In teaching arithmetic to third and fourth grade pupils state 
the relative importance you should place upon the reasoning and the 
memory side of the subject. 

135. In which grades may the question and answer method of recita- 
tion, and in which may the tropical method of recitation be most effectively 
employed? 

136. What is the duty of the teacher with reference to (a) personal 
cleanliness, (b) contagious diseases? 

137. Should discipline be strict and formal or free and easy? Discuss. 

138. It is charged that our schools fail to develop independence of 
thought and action. Is the trouble (a) too much help on the teacher's 
part, (b) or too little help, (c) or is the help not given in the right way? 
Give reasons. 

139. How may self consciousness be overcome, (a) on the part of 
the teacher; (b) on the part of the pupil? 

140. What is the highest qualification ol a teacher? Give your 
reasons. 

141. How do you deal with slang in your school? 

142. Distinguish between theory and fact. 

143. Name three studies that train the memory, and two that de- 
velop the reasoning powers. 

144. Name three natural incentives to study. Name two artificial 
incentives to study. 

145. Show the advantage of variety not only in the busy work of 
the primary grades but to some extent in all school work. 

146. Give devices for language teaching in the third, fourth and fifth 
grades. 

147. Discuss the value of map drawing in teaching geography. 

148. Give reasons for or against teaching lules and formal processes 
in arithmetic. 

149. Give your plan of dealing with a seventh grade boy who is 
persistently inattentive. 

150. Name some of the rights of children at school. 

151. In what book do you find the expression, "Gather up the frag- 
ments that nothing be lost."? 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 91 

152. Give some points that should characterize school government. 

153. Name ten books suitable for a school library. 

154. What is the advantage of the child's conversing freely with 
the teacher? 

155. What do you consider "perfect order" in a schoolroom, as 
applied to pupils? 

156. What study do you think has the greatest disciplinary value? 
Why? 

157. Is compulsory education an infringement on parents' rights? 
Discuss. 

158. Is the study of the children at play valuable? Why? 

159. Is there any danger in the teacher giving too much aid in the 
preparation of lessons? Discuss. 

160. How may teachers avoid permanent injury to the eyes of their 
pupils? 

161. The school room is a miniature world. What would be the 
ideal attitude of this little world toward the teacher? 

162. How does industry contribute to moral development? 

163. Of what value is imagination to an inventor? Of what value 
in your teaching? 

Explain. 

164. Does the silent teacher have any advantage in discipline? 

165. Which will your pupils consider the greater wrong; to take 
property belonging to the schoolhouse, or to take property belonging to a 
neighbor, and why? 

166. How can your school grounds be improved? 

167. Can you regard your school as apart from the home? Explain. 

168. How should a knowledge of the child's home life aid you? 

169. The teacher should have a special plan for each day's work. 
Discuss the value of general plans for the term or year's work. 

170. Why are reading, writing, and arithmetic generally regarded as 
subjects of the most importance in elementary schools? 

171. What is the necessity of plenty of sleep for children? How 
can you aid them in securing it? 

172. Give and discuss two rules for forming habit. 

173. Put yourself in the attitude of joy, sorrow, anger, etc. How do 
you feel? Can you apply the principle to your teaching? 

174. When may we say a person has a well disciplined mind? 

175. Why is the art of questioning of great importance to the teacher? 

176. By what illustrations would you give children their first ideas 
cf mountains and rivers? 

177. Discuss the value of good light, and the right position of light 
in your school room. 

178. V/hy should the teacher have confidence in his ability to 
govern ? 

179. What are some of the valuable materials for teaching morals? 
Discuss the value of one. 

180. Why does a boy remember all the rules and passwords in a 
game, and yet fail in a lesson on English grammar? 

181. How can your school grounds aid in teaching nature study? 

182. How would you seek parents' aid in pupils' punctuality and at- 
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183. Why should you teach pupils not to spit on the floor, slates, 
or sidewalks? 

184. Give two ways in which a teacher may encourage cleanliness. 
Is it a duty? 

185. What are some of the strong points of the Nebraska Public 
School System? 

186. Show how history may be correlated with geography. 

187. (a) Give the strong points of (1) the Word Method: (2) The 
Eclectic Method of teaching beginners to read. 

188. Name three qualities that the teaching of mental arithmetic 
should develop in the pupil. 

189. Why is the alphabet or a, b, c method no longer employed by 
good teachers in teaching pupils to read? 

190. Give a program suitable for a. rural school or a grade room 
containing two grades. 

191. A pupil is very rude and disobedient and the parent sends you 
word that you must not punish him. What will you do? 

192. Discuss plans for improving the spelling of your school. 

193. State the practical value of Child Study. 

194. Which is worth more to a child, the act of acquiring knowledge 
or the knowledge of facts acquired? 

195. What is meant by the objective method of instruction? What 
may be said of its value? 

196. State three educational axioms. 

197. What is your idea of the proper use of the text book in (a) 
geography, (b) grammar? 

198. How would you proceed to secure the pictures and other 
necessary articles v/itli which to decorate your school room? 

199. Why is it advisable to correlate civics with American history? 

200. What are the objections to the (a) consecutive method of call- 
ing upon pupils to recite; (b) promiscuous method; (c) concert method? 

DRAWING 

1. Define: Horizon line, axis, foreshortening. 

2. Make a drawing to illustrate perspective. 

3. At what period of the day should drawing be taught? Why? 

4. Make a simple design suitable for a cardcase cover. 

5. Draw a landscape to represent: "Now fades the glimmering 
landscape on the sight." 

6. Define and illustrate Center of Vision. 

7. Draw a bushel basket filled with potatoes. 

8. Name two pictures especially good for picture study at this time 
of year. 

9. Make a drawing of some subject which would be appropriate for 
a drawing lesson in the month of April. 

10. Is it better to have a drawing period of thirty minutes twice a 
week or one of ten minutes each day? 

11. Arrange within a rectangle a group of tree trunks rising against 
the sky. 

12. Construct a border design using the oak leaf as the central 
figure. 

13. Show a basket filled with potatoes. 



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14. Define and illustrate vanishing point. 

15. Make a sketch illustrating perspective, 

16. Draw a cube to the left and above the eye level; one directly 
before the observer and on the level with the eye. 

17. Name a picture especially good for picture study in the primary 
grades; one for the grammar grades. 

18. What objects would be suitable for drawing lessons for February"' 
Sketch a winter scene. 

19. Name four faculties of the mind which are cultivated by the 
study of drawing. 

20. What materials would you consider necessary for teaching this 
.subject in a rural school? 

21. Make an outline drawing of one of the following: Mail box, bird 
house, chicken coop. 

22. Name two great pictures suitable for school room decoration in 
the grammar grades; in the primary grades. 

23. Define and illustrate foreshortening, construction lines, and hori- 
zon line. 

24. Draw a sketchy landscape showing nearness and distance. 

25. What are the standard colors? Define tint, shade, and tone. 

26. Define and illustrate station point. 

27. What is meant by free-hand drawing? Illustrate. 

28. Should the drawing book be used as a text book for reference 
or for copying? 

29. Define and illustrate convergence, type forms, foreshortening. 

30. Draw a cube, indicating the vertical, horizontal and horizoneal 
receding lines. 

31. Is the horizon line a fixed line, and is the center of vision a 
fixed point? Make a simple drawing illustrating the horizon line and 
the center of vision. 

32. Name the primary colors; the secondary colors. 

33. Draw a tumbler below and at the right of the eye. 

34. Draw one of the following: An island, a path through woods, 
a stump, a cabin. 

35. Do you advocate the use of the model or object in drawing? 
Explain definitely. 

36. Define the following terms as used in drawing: (1) plan; (2) 
bisection; (3) convergence; (4) ground plane. 

37. Print the following in small letters: "Nothing can be truly great 
that is not right." 

38. Print in capital letters: "Agriculture." 

39. (1) What is meant by a working drawing? (2) What do reced- 
ing lines represent in drawing? 

40. Make a drawing suggestive of harvest time. 

41. Of what value is the use of water colors in connection with 
drawing? 

42. Define foreshortening, center of vision, vanishing point. 

43. What is a working drawing? Make one of some simple object. 

44. Draw a single leaf of any tree and tell what the tree is. 

45. Represent an out-door scene showing the use of (a) horizon line, 
(b) receding lines, (c) vanishing point. 

46. What use may be made of drawing in teaching: (a) geography, 



94 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

(b) language, (c) nature study? 

47. When should color be taught to children in the grades? 

48. What place should free hand drawing have in the drawing course? 
Why not require all drawing to be free hand? 

49. Define: Center of vision, vanishing point, perspective, shade, and 
plane. 

50. Distinguish between plumb line, vertical line and perpendicular 
line. 

CIVIL GOVERNMENT 

1. What is government? Why is it necessary? 

2. What is meant by arbitration? What is meant by appeal? 

3. Distinguish between direct and indirect taxation. Give examples 
of each. 

4. How may new states be admitted into the Union? 

5. To whom are pensions paid? Why are they paid? 

6. What is a writ of habeas corpus? When may it be suspended, 
and by whom? 

7. Give the qualifications for president. 

8. What is a revenue bill, and where does it originate? 

9. Give the duties of the county judge, county superintendent, and 
the county attorney. 

10. Give the important provisions of the law relative to compulsory 
attendance of pupils at the public schools of Nebraska. 

11. W^hat is meant by representative government? Give example. 

12. State two rights guaranteed by the United States constitution 
to a person accused of crime. 

13. What period of American History should be carefully studied 
preparatory to the study of the United States constitution? Why? 

14. Explain at least two of the following: habeas corpus, eminent 
domain ; arbitration ; reciprocity. 

15. (a) What is meant by the President's Cabinet? (b) Of how 
many members is it composed? (c) Give the names of two members of 
the present cabinet and state what departments are in their charge. 

16. What are the duties of a United States district attorney? 

17. How are the expenses of the national government met? Of 
the state government? 

18. What is meant by (a) "municipal ownership"? (b) "Referendum" 

19. What is patriotism? How do you teach patriotism? 

20. What is the date of (a) the regular annual election in Nebraska; 
(b) the annual meeting for rural school districts? 

21. Why is a state divided into districts, counties, townships and 
precincts? 

22. (a) Hovv' is public education supported? (b) On what theory 
do state and federal governments contribute such support? 

23. Name three rights and three duties of each voter of Nebraska. 

24. Give the important differences between the Articles of Confed- 
eration and the Constitution. 

25. (a) What does the Constitution say relative to coining money? 
(b) Wherein do gold or silver certificates and National Bank notes differ? 

26. (a) Give five requisites to a teacher's contract. 

27. (a) What officers, county, district, state and national, are to be 
elected at the next regular election? 



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28. Give the main provisions of the new law governing the certifi- 
cation of teachers. 

29. (a) What is impeachment? (b) Which house of Congress pos- 
sesses the sole power of impeachment? 

30. State reasons why the American people are better adapted to a 
republican form of government than are the people of Russia. 

31. Name a provision of the U. S. Constitution which has not 
operated as it was intended, and state what amendment is therefore 
advocated. 

32. (a) Give the consecutive number of the present national congress, 
(b) Is the present session the long or the short session? 

33. State briefly how treaties are made and what branches of our 
national government are concerned in their making. 

34. Distinguish between customs, or duties, and internal revenue. 

35. How are U. S. supreme judges selected? What is their term 
of office? 

36. What is meant by extradition? 

37. Name the present incumbents of the following offices: Speaker 
of the National House of Representatives, U. S. Commissioner of Edu- 
cation, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, the two U. S. senators from Ne- 
braska, and the member of Congress from the congressional district of 
your residence. 

38. State the provisions of law and the rulings of the State Superin- 
tendent in this state relative to reading circle work and attendance of 
teachers at county institutes. 

39. Explain hovv^ you would correlate instruction in civil government 
and current events so as to stimulate interest in both subjects. 

40. In case no candidate for president this year secures a majority 
of the electoral votes, how will the election be decided? 

41. Describe briefly the manner of electing a United States senator. 

42. Deflne the following terms: Ex-postf?ctor law; tariff; bill of 
attainder. 

43. Give flve powers vested in Congress. 

44. Where must bills involving revenue originate in Congress? Why 
did the makers of the Constitution so formulate this? 

45. Give reasons for and against the preferential primary for pres- 
ident. 

46. Why is a republican form of government preferable to a mon- 
archy ? 

47. Name the title of the person who has charge of the educational 
work in the state, and county, and the school officers in the school 
district. 

48. Describe the general character of the government under which 
an American citizen lives. 

49. WTiy did the makers of the constitution think it best to have 
two houses in congress? 

50. How is the president of the United State elected? Discuss the 
advisability of this system. 

51. What are the chief powers of the governor of Nebraska? 

52. What is the legislative body in the county called? The chief 
executive? 

53. What is commission form of government in a city? What are 



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the advantages in this kind of government? 

54. What are the suffrage qualifications ia Nebraska? 

55. What objection did the United States have to. Huerta's govern- 
ment? 

56. What powers other than legislative does the United States 
senate have? 

57. What is the electoral college? How are its members chosen? 

58. What power does the president have in regard to legislation? 
Is this always the final action on a bill? 

59. Where does the United States government derive its revenue? 

60. What is meant by equal suffrage? In what states is it in 
practice? 

61. Name five rights which the state constitution guarantees to the 
individual in the bill of rights. 

62. What two forms of county organization does Nebraska have? 
How do they differ? 

63. What is meant by eminent domain? Habeas corpus? 

64. What are the essential characteristics of our national govern- 
ment? 

65. How are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States 
chosen? Of the State Supreme Court? 

QQ. Name four forms of direct tax. Tell which you think is the 
best, and why. 

67. Discuss the "committee system" in Congress. 

68. How are territories of the United States governed? 

69. What change has recently been made in Nebraska in the method 
of capital punishment used? 

70. Of what does the judicial department of city government con- 
sist? It has jurisdiction in what kind of cases? 

71. Name three executive county officials and give their principal 
duties. 

72. What is the minimum requirement of qualifications of a teacher 
in a country school? 

73. Name the United States senators from Nebraska and tell to what 
party each belongs. 

74. What is the difference between a republic and a democracy? 

75. What are the principal duties of the county board of commission- 
ers (or supervisors)? 

76. Discuss commission form of city government. 

77. How may the national constitution be amended? 

78. What is the difference between a direct and an indirect tax? 
Give examples of each. 

79. How is the presiding officer of each house of Congress chosen? 
The presiding officer of which house has the more power? What are 
his powers? 

80. Name three distinct classes of powers which the president of 
the United States has. 

81. How may an unworthy president be removed from office? Dis- 
cuss the process. 

82. What kind of government does Mexico have at the present time? 

83. Name three State and two United States courts and briefly give 
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THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 97 

84. Discuss briefly our government's policy of dealing with the 
Mexican situation. 

85. What constitutes the executive department of (1) the Nation, (2) 
the State, (3) the County, (4) the City, (5) the Village? 

86. What is the "recall"? Tell v^^hy it is important. 

87. Distinguish between the legislative, executive and judicial de- 
partments of government. 

88. Define or explain: Felony, charter, bond, elector, franchise. 

89. How are the candidates for president and vice-president nomi- 
nated? The candidates for the state offices? 

90. Explain the differences between the commissioner and supervisor 
systems as used in Nebraska. 

91. Wliy is civics more difficult for girls than boys, WTiat would 
you suggest as a remedy? 

92. Define: Pardon, reprieve, commutation, personal rights. 

93. Distinguish between the duties of a grand and a petit jury. 

94. Explain fully the difference between direct and indirect taxes. 

95. Illustrate the difference between a majority and a plurality. 

96. What is an ambassador? A consul? A minister? 

97. Suggest some methods for teaching civics before the text book 
is taken up. 

98. Make a lesson plan for presenting the subject of civics to an 
eighth grade class. 

99. What is meant by "dual citizenship" in the United States? 
What kind of government do we have in the United States? 

100. The president's cabinet consists of what offices? How are the 
secretaries of these departments chosen? 

101. What are the chief powers of the United States Supreme Court? 

102. "S\Tiat restriction does the constitution place upon direct taxation 
by the national government? 

103 Name five charitable institutions in this state and tell where 
located. 

104. Name three state executive officers other than Governor. 

105. What nations are involved in the present war in Europe? 

106. Define or explain the initiative and referendum. 

107. Why is a republican form of government a failure in Mexico 
and a success in the United States? 

108. How may a foreigner become a citizen of the United States? 
What is the process called? 

109. What change recently took place in the President's cabinet? 

110. Compare the President of the United States and the Governor 
of the state of Nebraska as to executive powers in their respective do- 
mains. 

111. Give the name and the composition of the law-making body of 
(1) U. S., (2) Nebraska, (3) county, (4) city, (5) village. 

112. Under what disadvantages do the small rural schools labor? 
To what extent would the township or consolidated school improve these 
conditions? 

113. In what ways have some of the railroad companies helped to 
develop Nebraska? 

114. How will you impress upon your pupils the duty and responsi- 
bility of voters? Of taxpayers? 



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115. How many members constitute the quorum in the House of 
Representatives of the United States? What are the powers of the 
House of Representatives in impeachment? 

116. State the difference between a bill and a law. 

117. What amendment to the constitution of the United States has 
been ratified recently? 

118. What is the President's message? How does President Wilson 
differ from his predecessors in his method of communicating his message 
to Congi'ess? 

119. Who is the chief executive in city government? What is meant 
by school lands and how many sections of school lands in each township? 

120. How long does it take an alien to become naturalized? Explain 
fully the process of naturalization, 

121. What is meant by poll tax? By personal tax? Who are re- 
quired to pay poll tax? 

122. Write a paragraph telling why every citizen should take an 
active interest in local public affairs. 

123. What is the United States census? How often is the census 
taken? In what year will the next census be taken? 

124. How many members are there in the United States senate? 
How many members are there in the state senate of Nebraska? Who 
presides over the United States senate? Who presides over our state 
.'^enate? 

125. Define the following terms; capital stock; watered stock; right 
of eminent domain; the right of way; municipal ownership. 

126. What kind of government does England have? France? United 
States? 

127. What check does the president have upon legislation? Is this 
absolute? 

128. In which house of Congress do revenue bills originate? Why? 

129. What constitutes citizenship in the United States? Can all 
citizens vote? 

130. How may a village become incorporated? 

131. Discuss the advantages of the one-house legislature which is 
being advocated in many states. 

132. What are the respective advantages and disadvantages of written 
and unwritten constitutions? 

133. Contrast an absolute monarchy with a republic, showing the 
advantages and disadvantages of each, 

134. State the basis of representation in (a) the national senate, (b) 
the House of Representatives, (c) Why this difference? 

135. What is meant by the electoral college? 

136. Define tariff; reciprocity. 

137. How often does our state legislature meet? How is the pre- 
siding officer of each chosen? 

138. In whom or what does the treaty-making power of the national 
government rest? 

139. In what three ways may a bill become a law in Nebraska? 

140. Define: Impeachment, filibuster, bill of attainder, appellate 
.iurisdiction, caucus. 

141. Is there any danger of the president of the United States ever 
becoming a czar? State reasons for your answer. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 99 

142. What is the difference between an "open" and a "closed" pri- 
mary? Which has Nebraska at the present time? 

143. Define: Martial law, international law, maritime law, statute 
law. 

144. Quote the preamble to the National Constitution. 

145. Name and discuss two great compromises found in the consti- 
tution. 

146. What are "post roads?" Designate clearly. 

147. What part, if any, should the people have to bear in the en- 
forcement of the laws of our country? Why? 

148. What are some of the benefits that may be derived from our 
present Postal Savings Bank system? 

149. Discuss the differences between a limited and an absolute mon- 
arcny. 

150. What is an ex post facto law? 

151. Distinguish between a civil action r.nd a criminal action, as 
brought in a county court. 

152. On what basis may a mob be dispersed, since "freedom of 
assembly" is one of our rights? 

153. Name two kinds of property that are exempt from taxation. 
Why is this? 

154. Why does the state provide public education? 

155. Explain the terms: Mortgage; chattel mortgage. 

156. Discuss the importance of the president's message. When pre- 
sented? To whom? 

157. What is the purpose of the school census? 

158. Explain briefly what is meant by an elective monarchy; an 
hereditary monarchy. 

159. Define a constitution. What is an unwritten constitution? 

160. Should a county be responsible for good roads, as it is for good 
bridges? Why? 

161. Discuss the petit jury, as to its: (a) number, (b) selection, (c) 
purpose. 

162. Distinguish between specific and ad valorem duties. 

163. Give the reason for the state's maintaining a militia. Who is 
its commander-in-chief? 

164. Define a lease; term tenant. 

165. What is meant by the nobility or aristocracy of a country? 
Where may these classes be found? 

166. Define the duties of the county treasurer. 

167. What is a "search warrant?" Why Is it necessary to our free- 
dom? 

168. What is the fundamental law of the state? An enabling act? 

169. Name an article upon which an impost or customs duty is 
collected; one on which an exise tax is collected. 

170. What is meant by a state's repudiation of its debts? 

171. What is the use of the United States department of agriculture? 

172. How are new districts formed? 

173. What was the earliest form of government of which we know? 
Explain its benefits. 

174. Explain the need of a probate judge in county government. 

175. What is meant by a "dower right" to a piece of property? 



100 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

176. Why may a state give away its land? Under what circumstances 
is it justifiable? 

177. In which house of Congress do revenue bills originate? Give a 
reason for this. 

178. Why should a state care for its unfortunate and criminal citizens? 

179. How are legislators chosen? 

180. What do you understand by the "apportionment of school funds?" 
By whom made? For what purpose? 

181. Why is the office of Coroner important? Of County Attorney? 

182. What is the highest court of justice in a state called? The lowest 
court? 

183. When may a state seize a person's property for its own benefit? 
What is this right called? 

184. What is a veto? Its effect? 

185. How often does Congress meet? When? Define "A Congress". 

186. What are the duties of the treasurer of the district board? 

187. Give (a) a historic reason why we have states; (b) a geographi- 
cal reason why we have states; (c) a practical reason why we have states. 

188. What is the tariff question? Why is it so often brought up 
before Congress? 

189. Name the two branches of the state legislature. Which is the 
larger house? 

190. Name the different classes of United States courts. 

191. Give the qualifications demanded by law of the county superin- 
tendent. 

192. In what specific ways were the Articles of Confederation weaker 
than the U. S. Constitution? 

193. Discuss the Normal Training law, telling of the appropriation, 
its expenditure, how schools shall qualify, etc. 

194. How may a territory become a state? 

195. Name four of the chief executive officers of Nebraska, and tell 
how they are chosen. 

196. In what court would the following crimes be tried: Horse steal- 
ing, robbing the mail, crimes on the high seas supposing all were citizens 
of the United States? 

197. Give three points in which state government differs from terri- 
torial government. 

198. What do you consider the two best forms of national government 
in use? Distinguish between them. 

199. Give two exclusive powers of the House of Representatives, and 
two exclusive powers of the U. S. Senate. 

200. Could the president grant a pardon to a U. S. prisoner before 
he was tried? Why? 

BOTANY 

1. What is a bud? What must it contain, and how is it protected by 
nature ? 

2. What are the parts of the flower? What are the functions of 
each part? 

3. Describe the development of the embryo to the self-supporting 
plant. 

4. Describe a typical cross-section of the stem of an exogen, and 
tell how it would differ from an endogen. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 101 

5. What are the purposes of leaves? 

6. Distinguish between root and stem; what is the purpose of the root 
hairs ? 

7. Give some characteristics of a family of plants that would help 
to distinguish it from some other families. 

8. Of what advantage is cross fertilzation? 

9. Explain the phenomena of the yeast plant. 

10. Give various methods of seed-dispersal. 

11. What is protoplasm? 

12. Give structure and use of plant cells. 

13. What purposes may roots serve? Give illustrations of each. 

14. What are adventitious buds? What special purpose do they serve? 

15. What is a fruit. What is the fruit of the potato plant? 

16. What service do insects render in the fertilization of plants? 

17. Describe a tuber. A bulb. A corm. 

18. Explain how boiling water for drinking purposes renders one 
less liable to disease. 

19. Discuss either spirogyra or vaucheria. 

20. To w^hat extent is the new plant already formed in the seed 
before germination begins? 

21. What is meant by parasitic plants? Name some varieties. 

22. Make diagram of a cross-section of the Maple, and of Indian Corn; 
and explain the difference. 

23. Draw and explain differences between simple and compound 
leaves. 

24. Discuss some changes that have been brought about in flowers 
by cultivation. Cite instances to prove your answers. 

25. What part of the flower becomes the fruit in the apple? What 
in the cherry? 

26. Give a discussion of Bacteria. (Not more than 60 words.) 

27. Tell of the germination and growth of the bean until the leaves 
appear. 

28. Distinguish between underground stem and root, and give ex- 
amples of each. 

29. What is meant by terminal and what by lateral buds. 

30. Tell how a perfect flower may differ from a symmetrical flower. 

31. Explain the process of budding or grafting. 

32. What is honey, and how related to botany? 

33. Describe the cotyledons as to location and uses. 

34. Define and give illustration by citing examples of each: Annual, 
biennial, and perennial plants. 

35. Discuss propagation by means of budding, and distinguish be- 
tween budding and grafting. 

36. Give meaning of the following terms as applied to flowers : 
Perfect, complete, regular, symmetrical. 

37. Give physioligical structure of the leaf. 

38. Discuss: Absorption, circulation, respiration, and assimilation, 
as carried on by the exogen. 

39. Give general discussion of Cryptogams. 

40. Discuss the flora of Nebraska. 

41. Distinguish between seedling and graft as applied to fruit-trees. 

42. Define: (a) Gamopetalous, (b) Irregular, as applied to flowers. 



102 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

43. Discuss the structure of the bark. 

44. Give the characteristics of the flower of the Rosacae. 

45. Discuss the fern as to growth and propagation. 

46. Discuss some changes that have been brought about in flowers 
by cultivation. Cite instances to prove your answers. 

47. Give a discussion of Bacteria. (Not more than 60 words.) 

48. Give a description of five common weeds. 

49. Draw leaves to conform to the following shapes : orbicular, 
reniform, ovate, spatutate, elliptic. 

50. Define: Raceme, spike, head, catkin, panicle, corymb. 

51. Describe the germination of Indian corn. 

52. How are cryptogams propagated? 

53. Name three effects of struggle for existence among plants. 

54. Explain what is meant by Darwin's phrase "natural selection" 
and by Spencer's "survival of the fittest." 

55. What is a Pyxis? Silique? Silide? Drupe? Pepo? 

56. Explain how all things pass into soil and gas. 

57. What is meant by growing, and what by resting buds? 

58. What is the stamen? 

59. Give chief characteristics of cruciferae. 

60. Give two aids and two hindrances to teed dispersal. 

61. Name two parasitic plants. What distinguishes them from other 
plants? 

62. Discuss occurence, growth and propagation of mushrooms. 

63. Discuss rust as to growth and propagation. 

64. What are stomata? 

65. Define monecious, filament, sepal, style. 

66. Give methods of distinguishing betvreen monocotyledons and 
dicotyledons (a) as to seed, (b) stem of the plant, (c) leaves, (d) flowers. 

67. Describe a plant propagated by cutting from a stem. 

68. Give a discussion of any of the fungi. 

69. Discuss carbon assimilation. 

70. Give the different methods of pollination in plants. 

71. Discuss Pond Scum as to occurrence, appearance, and propagation. 

72. Name the different parts of the bean seed and tell the use of 
each. 

73. What is the difference between primary and secondary roots? 
Difference between fascicled roots and fibrous roots? 

74. What can you tell about the structure of the seed and stem of a 
plant by examining its leaf, and how do you determine it? 

75. Name three common cryptogamous plants and discuss one of 
them. 

76. What is each of the following: Chlorophyll, a saprophyte, a 
hybrid, the receptacle. 

77. Define: Dormant bud, adventitious bud, terminal bud. 

78. Define pome, grains, legume. What is an indehiscent fruit? 

79. Ferns, bluegrass, toadstool, lichens, beans. What plants in the 
foregoing group are cryptogamous? Why? 

80. Distinguish between the structure of the stem of a corn stalk 
and the stem of a maple tree. 

81. Describe the structure of a scaly bud. Name a plant in which 
axillary buds predominate, and one in which terminal buds give the plant 



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its form. 

82. A tree witli a ring of bark removed may grow for a few months 
but then dies. Why? 

83. What is meant by monoecious and by dioecious plants? 

84. What is an herbarium? What instructions would you give a 
class about to begin this work? 

85. Classify plants according to the number of cotyledons in the 
«eed. 

86. Describe one of the following: Spirogyra, pleurococcus. 

87. What is the usual color of plants grown in a dark place? Why? 

88. Define: Receptacle, peduncle, chlorophyll, stipules. 

89. Name tw^o classes of roots with respect to form and tell three 
uses of roots. 

90. Draw a picture of the different classes: of leaves with respect 
to veins. Give two uses of leaves. 

91. Describe one of the following: The yeast plant, wheat rust. 

92. Tell how insects are often of great service to plants. 

93. Give an illustration of and tell what is meant by a parasitic 
plant. 

94. Explain the difference between the stems of monocotyledonous 
and dicotyledonous seeds. 

95. Discuss vaucheria or lichens with respect to: (a) Habitat; (by 
manner of growth and reproduction. 

96. Define: Akene, indehiscent, epigynous. 

97. If we keep the leaves removed from a plant that is accustdmed 
to produce abundant foliage, tell the effect it would have on the plant 
and explain why. 

98. In raising fruit trees, why are grafts more desirable than seed- 
lings? 

99. How can you determine whether a plant just coming through the 
ground is monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous? (b) What is the use of 
the flower? 

100. Discuss marchantia with respect to: Habitat, appearance, repro- 
duction. 

101. (a) Describe osmosis as it occurs in the roots, (b) What are 
fascicled roots ? 

102. Make a cross section of a corn stalk and of a box-elder and 
explain any great difference in structure. 

103. Discuss the cryptogams in the following group: pigweed, toad- 
stool, purslane, yeast, foxtail. 

104. Define, as used in botany: Hybrid, stigma, monadelphous. 

105. Some seeds, as a bean, will readily break in two; other as 
corn, will not; what is characteristic of the plants from which each of 
these groups of seeds come? 

106. With respect to bud§ what is meant by: Naked, lateral, terminal? 

107. Classify roots of the following plants with respect to form and 
use: Sweet potato, wheat, parsnip, Irish potato. 

108. As used in botany define: Stoma, apetalous, hypogynous, 
dehiscent. 

109. Define: Perianth, rhizome, deliquescent, cryptogams, spore. 

110. (a) How is starch formed in plants. (b) In what form is the 
starch ? 



104 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

111. For what purpose do flowers exist? Describe the parts of a 
floAver. 

112. What are the chief ways in which seeds are dispersed? Give 
an example of each. 

113. Give the characteristics of the lily family, the crowfoot family. 

114. What are the principal structural features that distinguish mon- 
ocotyledonous plants from dicotyledonous plants? 

115. Define: Calyx, pollen, exogen, chlorophyl, plumule. 

116. Give the characteristics of phenograms and cryptograms. 

117. Describe the germination of the seed by taking the lima bean 
or some other common seed. Make drawing to illustrate each step. 

118. Name all the parts of a flower. Which are essential parts? 

119. How are plants adapted to environment? 

120. Name and define the types of growth in trees. 

121. Discuss seed dispersal, mentioning five ways. 

122. What are the adaptations of water-plants to their environments? 

123. Name the four parts of the plant and the function of each. 

124. Why are some plants called compass plants? What is the 
cause of this condition? 

125. What is the chloroplast? What is its function? 

126. What are the advantages of cross-pollination? 

127. Name and give an example of five kinds of fruits. 

128. Define: Protoplasm, serrate, inflorescence. 

129. Discuss green algae as to habitat, structure, reproduction, and 
conditions of growth. 

130. How does a plant breathe? 

131. Define morphology, histology, ecology', taxonomy, physiology. 

132. Name and define five different kinds of pericarps. 

133. Explain the process and results of pollination. 

134. Discuss stems as to (a) form, (b) function. 

135. Show by dawings five different forms of leaves and name each 
form drawn, 

136. Name the parts of a plant cell. What is the function of each 
part? 

137. Draw a cross section of an exogenous stem, naming the several 
parts. 

138. What are leaf-hairs? What is their function? 

139. How do botanists prove that all the parts of the flower are 
modified leaves? 

140. Discuss the cacti. 

141. Give three condtions affecting the growth in the seed and show 
the effect of each. 

142. What are the functions of roots? 

143. Why are willows so generally selected for planting along the 
borders of streams in order to protect the .banks from washing? 

144. What is the best time to prune trees? Why? 

145. Discuss hybridization as to effects and utility. 

146. What are: Water roots, aerial roots, fleshy roots, fibrous roots? 
Do plants get any food except through their roots;, if so, what and how? 

147. What is the difference between an exogenous and endogenous 
stem? 

148. Sketch two leaves, one with netted veins, and one with parallel 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 105 

veins. What two things could you tell about a plant from an examina- 
tion of its leaves? 

149. Discuss stamens and pistils and give' functions of each. 

150. Define: Indehiscent fruit, legume, pome. 

151. Describe the yeast plant. 

152. From what source does a land plant obtain its chief supply of 
each of the following: Carbon, nitrogen. 

153. Describe some well known flower and give the class, order, 
genus, and specie of the plant to which it belongs. 

134. Define: Calyx, corolla, perianth, pericarp, filament, 

155. Describe any specie of Algae. 

156. Give the functions of (a) stamens, (b) pistill. 

157. Illustrate by a drawing a cross section of a monocotyledonous 
stem. 

158. What is the green matter in leaves called? How does it aid in 
making sugar? 

159. Name five useful trees grown in Nebraska and give their pro- 
ducts. 

160. Make outline drawings of the following leaves: Cottonwood, 
elm, maple and oak. 

BOOKKEEPING 

1. Define personal account, property account. 

2. What is commercial paper? 

3. Write a negotiable note. 

4. Name four ledger accounts that will show losses and gains, and 
four that will show resources and liabilities. 

5. What is meant by protest. 

6. Journalize and post the following: Close ledger to show loss or 
gain and present worth. Accounts not affecting these items need not be 
closed. 

Began business with Cash $800. Mdse, $1200. I owe Henry Smith 
a note for $150. Albert Packard owes me $275 on account. 

Bought of James Field an invoice of Mdse. amounting to $485. Gave 
in payment sight draft on Albert Packard for amount of his account, and 
paid balance in cash. 

Sold Harvey Anderson an invoice of Mdse. amounting to $675. Re- 
ceived $275 Cash, note at 30 days for $250, balance to go on account. 

Sold Mdse. for Cash $350. 

Paid clerk hire in Cash $40, Rent $25. 

Paid note to Henry Smith $150. 

Mdse. unsold invoices $905. 

7. What are the necessary things in a note? 

8. When money is paid out for interest, what is debited and what 
credited? 

9. What is meant by account current? What is meant by closing 
an account? 

10. In closing the ledger, into what account would you close loss 
and gain? Why? 

11. What is meant by endorsement. What legal effect has it? 

12. Make day book, journal and ledger: 

18 
Cash on hand $2000. Bills receivable, Geo. Jones' note $100. 



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I owe $240 on note to Henry Fielding. 

Bought 200 barrels flour at $6.45 a barrel. 

Paid freight and insurance $45. 

Bought 1000 bushels potatoes at $.35 a bushel. 

19 

Sold Wm. Swan 100 barrels flour at $7.50 a barrel. Received in 
payment his 'note for $500. Balance in cash. 

Sold Edgar Smith for cash 800 bushels of potatoes at 37 1/2 cents. 

Sold Henry Rogers for cash 50 barrels flour at $7.40. 

Bought car load of hay, 20 tons, at $7.40 a ton cash, and sold the 
same at once for $7.60 a ton, taking in payment note on Geo. Fox, due 
in 90 days. 

20 

Sold out for $415 in cash. 

13. What is legal tender? Collateral? Negotiable paper? Loss and 
Gain? Present Worth? 

14. Name three kinds of drafts with reference to time. 

15. Explain fully resource inventory; liability inventory. 

16. (a) Define Bills Payable; Bills Receivable. (b) When debit and 
when credit each? 

17. Journalize the following, post, and find Applicant's present worth, 
closing* all accounts : 

Dec. 1 Applicant (use the term "Applicant" and not your signature) 
commenced business with the following: Cash $1000; merchandise, $650; 
Thos. Long owes him on account, $50. 

Dec. 2. Sold merchandise to H. Lange, $112. Received in payment. 
Cash, $62; his note for 15 days, $30; balance on account. 

Dec. 3. Bought safe for store. Cash, $75. 

Dec. 4. A fire damaged Applicant's stock to the amount of $60. No 
insurance. 

Dec. 5. Discount H. Lange's note at bank, receiving Cash for pro- 
ceeds, P^ace, $30; discount, 25 cents. Inventories: Mdse, $510; Office 
fixtures, $75; Unpaid clerk hire, $20. 

18. Write a non-negotiable note. 

19. Distinguish between endorsement at length and endorsement in 
blank, and illustrate each. 

20. Write a receipted bill for the following: 

6 Complete Geographies at $1.00 

4 U. S. Histories at 80 

10 Standard Arithmetics at 52 

Make the bill complete in all details. 

21. Name the book of original entry, and discuss its importance. 

22. Journalize the following, post in the ledger, and find Austin and 
Blake's present worth, liabilities, and net gain. 

Austin and Blake of Omaha on Jan. 2, 1905, have on hand cash 
$723.18 and a stock of general merchandise inventoried at $6873.45. They 
transact business as follows: 

Jan. 3. Sold R. K. Wheeler on account Mdse. valued at $76.50; 
received cash for petty sales $36.35; bought of Leach & Co. on account 
48 bbls of flour at $3.65 a bbl., and 2 tons of feed at $22.25 a ton. 

Jan. 4. Sold F. E. Mann for cash, merchandise amounting to $65.25. 

Jan. 10. Paid for rent of store one month $45, and for clerk hire $10. 



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Jan, 12. Bought of James Kern for cash 6 dozen brooms at $2.40 
per dozen. 

Jan. 15. The inventoried value of merchandise on hand was $7050.17. 
Close all accounts. 

23. State the essential difference between single entry and double 
entry bookkkeeping. 

24. (a) Write a sight draft, (b) Who are the parties to it and what 
relation do they bear to each other? 

25. Define three kinds of endorsements. 

26. What can be said for and against the teaching of bookkeeping 
in the country schools? 

27. (a) What is a trial balance? (b) When is it used? 

28. Jan. 10, 1906 — Continued my business with the following resources 
and liabilities: Cash $3000, Mdse. $2000, bill receivable $500, bills payable 
$350; book accounts — John Anderson $75, Howard Hall $50. 

Jan. 11 — Sold to Joseph Smith, merchandise $125, receiving in pay- 
ment. Cash $35, his note for $50, balance on account. 

Jan. 12 — Bought of H. Johnson, on account, merchandise $700. Paid 
for set of office records $8. 

Jan. 13 — A fire in the basement of the store destroyed $200 of stock. 
No insurance. 

Jan. 14 — Howard Hall having failed and assigned his property in 
bankruptcy, his account was settled on a basis of 50%. 

Jan. 15. Journalize, post and close ledger. 

Inventories: Mdse. $2400; Office Fixtures $50; Unpaid clerk salary $25. 

29. How are promissory notes, checks, sight drafts, and sight time 
drafts disposed of in bookkeeping? 

30. Explain inventory, days of grace, certificate of deposit, insolvency, 
exchange. 

31. (a) What is meant by protesting a note? (b) How may the 
endorser of a check escape responsibility? 

32. The following are the ledger balances of the firm of Goetz & 
Hurlbut after six months' business, ending March 16, 1906: 

Dr. Acct. Cr. 

S3874.70 Mdse 

598.80 Cash 

Stock $6274. 

2594.25 Personal Accts 1083 . 80 

612 Bills Rec 

591.44 Expense 

Interest & Discount 17.39 

The amount of merchandise on hand, as shown by inventory, was 
$5140.50, and the amount of fixtures previously charged to expense $140.25. 
Make out the final loss and gain account, showing the gain or loss on the 
six months' business. 

33. Make the proper journal entry when the bank discounts other 
persons' written obligations, giving you the proceeds in cash. 

34. The following is the balance sheet of unclosed accounts of the 
Globe Hardware Company after six months' business, ending April 16, 1906: 

Dr. Acct. Cr. 

?10,372.20 Mdse $6,497.50 

6,280 Cash 5,681.20 



108 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

1,951 Globe Hardware Company 8,225. 

2,594.25 Personal account 1,083.80 

1,250 Bills receivable 638. 

826 Expense 234.56 

39.33 Interest and discount 56.72 

The amount of merchandise on hand, as rhown by inventory April 16, 
3 906, was $4,140.25, and the amount of fixtures previously debited to 
expense $325. Determine the Globe Hardware Company's present worth, 
and close its account in the ledger. 

35. Define (a) bookkeeping, (b) journalizing. 

36. (a) Which side of bills receivable is aiw^ays the larger when there 
is any difference? Why? 

37. If you wish to know what is due on any account what book should 
be consulted? 

38. Write a letter of application for a position as cashier in a bank. 

39. Make the daybook, journal and ledger entries required by the 
following transaction : 

Aug. 1. Bought of S. Smith on my note at 60 days, 500 yds. silk at 
89c; 20 bolts ribbon at $1.20; 60 yds. lining at 8c. 

Aug. 2. Sold J. Myers for cash 10 yds. silk at $1.50; 5 yds. ribbon 
at 25c. 

Aug. 3. Sold Thos. Bent for cash, 15 yds. silk at $1.50; 7 yds. lining 
at 15c. 

Aug. 4. Paid for rent $25. Paid for clerk hire $30. 

40. Define posting, notary, power of attorney, bills payable, C. O. D. 

41. Write telegram addressed to M. E. Smith & Co., Omaha, Ne- 
braska, ordering shipped by fast freight twelve dozen pairs of overalls, 
assorted sizes. 

42. (a) Write a letter of remittance, (b) Write a letter acknowledg- 
ing the receipt of a letter of remittance. 

43. Mention six essentials to a good business letter. 

44. Give the uses of the check book. 

45. The following is James Johnson's trial balance for the year. 
Make out the balance sheet showing the condition of his business: 

Dr. Cr. 

Tames Johnson $ 200 $1500 

Mdse. (Inv. $200) 800 720 

Bills Rec 250 200 

Bills Pay 280 

Expense 23 

Jesse Andrews 300 

Cash 1550 420 

Discount 2 5 



$3125 $3125 

46. Name two ways of finding the present w^orth of a business. 

47. (a) Explain the difference between drafts payable after date and 
drafts payable after sight, (b) What is meant by "acceptance" as applied 
to drafts? 

48. James Moore began business June 1st, 1906, investing cash, $2,000. 
June 2. Paid one month's store rent, $50. 

June 3. Bought merchandise of M. C. King, for cash, $950. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 109 

June 4. Sold James Donovan, for cash, 45 bbl. flour at $6 per bbl. 
June 5. Bought Mdse. of J. II. Miller, for cash, $240. 
June 6. Sold Jacob Brevver on account, 30 bbls. of flour at $6 per bbl. 
June 8. Sold A. Moseley, 20 bbls. of flour, for cash, -at $5.50, 10 
bbls. of salt at $1.50 per bbl. 

June 9. Bought Mdse. of J. H. Lane on account, $375.40. 
June 10. Received cash from Jacob Brewer to apply on account, $144. 
June 11. Received cash from J, H. Lane to apply on account, $175.40. 
Journalize the above items. 

49. (a) Name the two general classes of accounts (b) Give general 
rule for journalizing each. 

50. State two reasons why the day book is the most important book 
of entry. 

51. How do you close Proprietor's account? 

52. When closing the books, articles previously debited to Expense 
were invoiced at $75, the unpaid rent and clerk hire amounted to $40. 
Explain the proper disposition to be made of these items. 

53. The following are the ledger footings: 

Dr. Or. 

$ 300.00 Proprietor $2875.00 

1300 .00 Cash 723 . 75 

2141.00 Mdse 600.00 

275.00 B. J. Thomas 

200.00 Bills Rec 

3.75 Interest 

A. J. Watson 191.00 

100.00 Andy Harvey 

70.00 Expense 



$4389.75 $4389.75 

Using a Mdse. inventory of $500 and a resource, Expense inventory of 
$25, determine the Proprietor's present worth. 

54. Define three kinds of endorsements. 

55. Make the proper journal entry when the bank discounts other 
persons' written obligations, giving you the proceeds in cash. 

56. Philip Adair began business March 1st, 1907, investing cash, $2000. 
March 2. Paid one month's store rent, $50. 

March 4. Bought merchandise of M. Guide for cash, $900. 

March 5. Sold James Marsh for cash, 45 bbls flour at $6 per bbl. 

March 6. Bought Mdse. of J. H. Madison, on account, $250. 

March 8. Sold Jacob Brewer 30 bbls. flour at $6 per bbl. Received 
cash, $75; balance on account. 

March 9. Sold Albert Jones 20 bbls. flour at $6 per bbl., 10 bbls. of 
salt at $1.50 per bbl. Received his note for 60 days in payment. 

March 10. Bought merchandise of J. H. Long,, $370. Gave my note 
for 30 days in payment. 

March 12. Received from Jacob Brewer Cash to balance account. 

March 13. Paid my note in favor of J. H. Long, face $370, discount 
$7.40. 

Journalize the above items. 

57. Define invoice, account current. What is meant by consignment? 

58. Oct. 1, 1906. James Johnson began business with cash $6,000. He 



no THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 



buys Henry Holt's business — stock of groceries, $4,500; fixtures, $500; open 
accounts, $610. He pays cash, $4,000, and a 90-day note drawing 6 per 
cent interest for balance. 

Oct. 2. Deposited balance of cash in First National Bank. Cash sales, 
$55.65. Sold D. Drake, on account, merchandise amounting to $34.60. 

Oct. 3. Paid for office books and stationery, $16.25; rent, $25; cash 
sales, $75.20. 

Oct. 7. Discounted note given Henry Holt — ^interest, $1.61; discount, 
$16.12, D. Drake settles his account with a 30-day note drawing 10 per cent 
interest. Bought car of flour, 20,000 lbs., at $2 per cwt. Paid with check 
on bank. 

Journalize in an explanatory or day-book journal. 

Inventories; Groceries; $4,600; fixtures, $500; office books, etc., $10. 

5C*. Journalize: 

May 1. E. Nelson's business showed Cash $4000; Mdse. $3500; Notes 
in his favor $1700; John Small owes him $375 on accoimt; He owes Wood, 
Brown and Co. for Mdse. $850; Notes payable $600. 

May 2. Bought horse and wagon for use in business $240, paying cash. 
Insured goods for $2000 for one year at 1 1/4 per cent. Paid premium 
cash. Sold H. Vaught Mdse. $147, received cash $47, balance on note at 
60 days. 

May 3. Paid note, face $1000, interest $25. Sent Mdse. to Brown & 
Co. to be sold at Nelson's risk $500. 

May 7. Sold horse and wagon for cash $250. Received accounting 
from Brown & Co. of shipment on 3rd inst., net proceeds of sale $480. 

60. Journalize the following, post and close accounts: 
Began business with cash capital of $5000. 
Bought, for cash, 100 bbls. Flour at $8.00. 
Bought of J. L. Brown on account, 50 bbls. Pork at $9.50. 
Sold, for cash, 10 bbls. Pork at $10.50. 

Paid J. L. Brown on account $100.00. 

Sold Lewis Harmon, on his note at 30 days, 20 bbls. Flour 

Took out cash for personal use $50.00. 
Bought set of books for office use $15.00. 

Bought of Johnson Bros, on my note at 60 days, 40 bbls. 
Beef at $12.00. 

Jan. 30. Sold Lewis Harmon on account 20 bbls. Beef at $13.50. 
Jan. 31. Paid rent of store in cash $60.00. 
Value of mdse. on hand Jan. 31, $1280.00. 

61. Distinguish between bills payable and bills receivable. 

62. Give directions for making a trial balance. What is the purpose 
of a trial balance? 

63. Write a check for $50 on the First National Bank of Lincoln. 

64. The footing of the debit side of a Mdse. account is $2,150.48; the 
footing of the credit side is $1,864.32; the Mdse. inventory is $896.00. 
Enter in the ledger and close the account. 

65. How do you find the present worth of a business? 

66. Journalize the following: 
Feb. 1. Invested cash $10,000. 

Feb. 2. Bought of Thos. Waybright, Mdse. $2,100, paid cash $1,500, 
balance on account. 



Jan. 


1. 


Jan. 


3. 


Jan. 


4. 


Jan. 


7. 


Jan. 


10. 


Jan. 


13. 


at $9.00. 




Jan. 


17. 


Jan. 


20. 


Jan. 


25. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. Ill 

Feb, 3, Bought of Jenkins & Co. on my note for six months, Mdse, 
$850. 

Feb. 5. Sold for cash, Mdse. $740. 

Feb. 7. Sold Brown & Co,, Mdse, $850, received in payment their note 
for 30 days $500, balance on account. 

Feb. 10. Bought safe for office use $50. 

Feb. 12. Invested additional cash $1,200. 

Feb. 15. Paid Thos, Waybright, on account $100. 

67. Define inventory and liabilities. 

68. How does a note differ from a check? 

69. What is meant by the following terms: consignment, endorsement, 
bills receivable, receipt, net gain? 

70. Define invoice, bills payable, resources, journal, index. 

71. Write a receipt and a check. 

72. How do you find the present worth of a business? 

73. The footing of the debit side of a merchandise account is $7788.15, 
the footing of the credit side is $6923.50; the merchandise inventory is 
$2072.45. Enter in the ledger and close the account. 

74. What is the object of Bookkeeping? What is the difference be- 
tween single and double entry Bookkeeping? 

75. Define: Insolvent, account, inventory. 

76. Write a sight draft on Jones & Co., Omaha, drawn by G. B. Brown, 
in favor of L. E. Smith. 

77. Define Bills Payable, Bills Beceivable. When debit and when 
credit each? 

78. What is a contract? Write a teacher's contract for a school. 

79. Define protest, and give the legal effect of protest. 

80. Journalize: 

Jan. 2. Began business with cash on hand $650.00. 

Jan. 4. Bought mdse. of Chas. Smith on account, amounting to $1500. 00> 
Jan. 5. Sold to Brown & Co. 25 bbl. flour at $7.50 per bbl, for cash. 
Jan. 9. Received from W. C. Dow on account, $60. 
Jan. 12. Sold J. M. Clark 10 bbl. flour at $8.00, on account. 
Jan. 14. Paid rent of storehouse, $20.00. 

Jan. 15. Wm. French paid note of Oct. 15, 1907, $500 with interest 
at 6%. 

Jan. 18. Paid Chas. Smith on account $1000.00. 

Jan. 21. Drew out for personal use $200.00. 

Jan. 25. Received J. M. Clark's note at 60 days in payment of account. 

81. Write a sight draft with E. H. Field as drawer, George Conway 
drawee, and W. A. White as payee. 

82. Define resources, liabilities. 

83. Journalize. 

Jan. 1. J. H. Adams began business with $5000 in money. 

Jan. 2. J. H. Adams purchased $4000 worth of mdse. for cash. 

Jan. 3. Sold bill of goods to J. M. Snow for cash, $55.00. 

Jan. 5. Paid cash for freight on goods, $32.00. 

Jan. 10. Sold goods to Chas. French as follows: For cash, $325.00; 
for his note, $300.00; on account, $150.00. 

Jan. 11. By counting the cash Mr. Adams found that $25.00 had been 
lost. 

Jan. 15. Bought mdse. of J. C. Mack $1000.00. Mr. Adams gave in 



112 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 



payment his note payable in 60 days. 

Jan. 16. Sold J. C. Boyd goods valued at $800.00 and took in part 
payment goods valued at $100.00. 

Jan, 18. J. B. Wright pays his note of $500 less the discount, $4.00. 

Jan. 21. Paid rent for 3 months by giving note at 60 days, $320.00. 

84. Give meaning of the following commercial abbreviations: Inst, 
ult., o. k., do., c. o. d. 

85. Define due bill, certified check, debit. 

86. Journalize: 

April 1. H. Hahn began business with $5000.00 in cash. 

April 2. Paid rent for April, $50. 

April 3. Bought for cash N. Y. Central R. R. Stock 30 shares at $90. 

April 4. Sold Thomas White on account 600 bu. of corn at 60c. 

April 5. Sold mdse to H, R. Lucas $425.00. Received in payment cash 
$225 and note at 60 days for balance. 

April 6. Bought mdse. of Hurd & White $900.00. Gave in payment 
cash $600.00, the balance $300.00 on account. 

April 7. Paid my note of $600.00 to James Hill. 

April 8. William Brown paid his note of $1200.00. 

April 9. Accepted H. R. Lucas' draft on me in favor of Hurd & White. 

April 10. Bought desk for office, $40.00. 

87. Define meaning of following commercial abbreviations: Cr. ; Inv. ; 
Mem.; Prem.; I. O. U. 

88. Distinguish between discount and interest. 

89. Journalize: 

June 1. Paid rent for May $100.00. 

June 2. Bought mdse. of Wm. Hendricks $1200.00. Give in payment 
cash $1000.00. Balance on account. 
June 3. Paid cartage, $7.50. 

June 4. Paid Wm. Hendricks cash on account $200.00. 
June 5. Received $30.00 as commission for selling goods. 
June 6. Deposited cash in First National Bank $500.00. 
June 7. Goods not insured valued at $40.00 have been lost by fire. 
June 8. Sold mdse. to R. C. Kimball on his note at 10 days $100.00. 
June 9. Sold for cash our entire stock of mdse. for $3000.00. 
June 10. Sold real estate for cash $4500.00. 

90. Define: Deposit, rebate, commission. 

91. What is a clearing house? Name one advantage of a clearing 
house in a large city. 

92. Distinguish between personal property and real estate. 

93. Define: Jobber, manufacturer, consignor. 

94. Write a draft of which Edward King is the drawer, Mark Smith 
the drawee, and John Wolf the payee. 

95. Journalize the following: 

May 1. Began business with cash on hand $5000; Mdse. $850; Will 
Kelley owing us $300 for Mdse. purchased last month. 

May 2. Paid for insurance $48.50. 

May 5. Sold Mdse. for cash $128.40. 

May 6. Bought Mdse. of Milton Corns for $900 giving my note at 
30 days. 

May 8. Sold Mdse. to Jacob Reese on account $340. 

May 9. Received $42 commission for selling goods for Chas. Porter. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 113 

May 11. Received check from Jacob Reesi^ for full amount of his 
indebtedness. 

May 13. Bought goods from BroAvn 45; Co. on account, $941. 

May 14. Paid clerk $18 for services. 

May 21. Sold goods to Clark Baker for $725, taking his note due in 
ten days. 

96. What is a contract. Name three classes of people who are con- 
sidered incompetent to make a contract. 

97. How may a check be written so that it may aften^'ards serve as 
?. receipt? 

98. Define: Assignee, bankruptcy, installment. 

99. When are the following debited: Mdse., cash, expense, bills pay- 
able? 

100. Journalize: 

Aug. 1. J. H. Hall began business with the following assets: Cash 
$12000.00. Building valued at $5000.00. The only liability was George 
Dayton's note $1500.00. 

Aug. 2. Bought coal for fuel, $100.00. 

Aug. 3. Sold mdse. for cash $300.00. 

Aug. 4. Bought mdse for cash $500.00. 

Aug. 5. Bought an office desk $50.00. 

Aug. 6. Bought mdse $1000.00. Gave in payment cash $800.00 and a 
note at 30 days 6% for remainder. 

Aug. 7. Paid George Dayton's note of $1500.00. 

Aug. 8. Bought ten shares of Bank stock $1000.00. 

Aug. 9. Paid L. A. Fisher's draft on me for $120.00. 

Aug. 10. Bought mdse $400.00. Gave in payment my check. 

101. Give rules for journalizing: (1) property accounts; (2) personal 
accounts; (3) allowances. 

102. Define: (1) net gain; (2) inventory; (3) payee; (4) indorsement. 

103. Write a negotiable promissory note. 

104. From the following trial balance make a Balance Sheet. (If 
necessary use a lead pencil for the red ink.) 

Dr. Or. 

Proprietor $7000.00 

Cash $7645.84 454.53 

Merchandise 1245 . 21 1119.20 

Bills payable 560.40 

Bills receivable 460.45 • 142.55 

Expense 48.43 

Thomas Ashton 154.46 

Richard Elliott 96.00 311.85 

John Jones 145.00 206.86 



$9795.39 $9795.39 

The inventory for merchandise is $325.60. 

105. Journalize the following: 

July 1. Andrew Long began business and invested as follows: Cash, 
$3000; merchandise, $2000; bills receivable $500. 

July 2. Sold merchandise to James Anderson $400. Received in pay- 
ment a horse and wagon for use in the business, valued at $200; his note 
for the balance. 



114 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

July 3. The horse valued at $150 was killed by a train. The railroad 
company allowed me $100 damages. 

July 4. Discounted James Anderson's note at the bank. Face of note 
$200. Discount $10. 

July 5. Withdrew for private use $100. 

106. What is an account? What does it include? 

107. What is the purpose of keeping a cash account? What is the 
purpose of closing the account? 

108. Are personal accounts closed in precisely the same way as cash 
accounts? 

109. Under what various titles may the proprietor keep accounts with. 
himself? When may the above account be closed? 

110. How should goods be valued in making an inventory? 

111. What is an order? To whose account are the goods charged 
when they are sold on order? 

112. Journalize: 

(a) July 2. Bought merchandise for cash, $1200.00. 
July 7. S. C. Wells has paid us cash on account $350.00. 

July 8. Bought merchandise of Craig & Co. on our note @ 5 days, 
$800.00. 

July 9. Sold merchandise to Andrews & Son on their note for $750.00. 
July 10. Paid our note of the 8th to Craig^ & Co. $800.00. 

(b) Aug. 4. James Arnold and Frank Wheeler have entered into part- 
nership. Arnold invests cash, $575; Merchandise $1620; and a note signed 
by Wm. Hamilton for $350, due Aug. 5. Wheeler invests cash, $2800. He 
owes D. L. Campbell on account $255, a debt which the firm or partnership 
assumes to pay. 

113. Define note, check, mortgage. 

114. What is the best system of bookkeeping for the ordinary business 
man? Why? 

115. Write day-book, journal, ledger, for the following transactions: 
A. Blank commences business with cash $1,000, mdse. $500. 
Sold J. Sands, on acct., 50 sacks flour @ $1.02, 20 bbl. salt 

Bought desk for office for cash, $25. 

Insured stock and fixtures for $450. Paid premium at 29r, 

Bought of H. Baker on acct., 100 bags chopped corn @ $1.10. 
50 bags bran @ 98c. 

Aug. 8. Mr. Blank drew ca^h from business for his private use, $25. 

Aug. 11. Sold V. Train 25 bags chopped corn @ $1.40, 25 bags bran 
@ $1.20, 50 bags flour @ $1.02. Received cash $50, balance on account. 

Aug. 13. The store burned down I?.st night, nothing saved except the 
cash, which had been banked at close of business. The insurance company 
adjusts the loss, and pays the face of the policy in cash. (Make entries 
to cover this, and close books.) 

What would be his present worth on the 14th? 

116. What is the object of the journal? What are the advantages of 
the combined daybook-journal? 

117. How does single entry differ from double entry? 

118. What accounts may show loss or gain? How would you know 
whether the merchandise account showed gain? 



Aug. 


1. 


Aug. 


2. 


@ $1.13. 




Aug. 


4. 


Aug. 


6. 


in cash. 




Aug. 


7. 



THE NEBHASKA QTJTESTION BOOK. 115 

119. Journalize the following: 

Jan. 1. Commenced business this day Avith cash, ^2000. I owe S, 
Thatch $275. T. Sams owes me, $135, 

Jan. 2. Bought of U. Heal, 20 head horses @ $96. Paid half cash. 

Jan. 3. Bought of V. Strain on my note ut 30 days, 10 mules <§) $104. 

Jan. 4. Paid care-taker a month's wages, $45. 

Jan. 5. Sold W. Burley, 4 horses @ $125; 2 mules @ $135. Received 
cash, $450. 

Jan. 6. Sold A. Jones on his note at 60 days, 6 head horses @ $130. 

Jan. 8. Paid my debt to S. Thatch in cash. 

Jan. 9. Drew on T. Sams for what he- owes me in favor of U. Heal. 

10. One of the horses died last night. Paid $5 for having him hauled 
away. 

Jan. 26.- A. Jones discounted his note today at 6%. Paid cash for 
balance, 

120. Give two ways of finding the present Avorth. 

121. If T. Sams owes you $135, and you owe U. Heal more than that 
amount, how would you proceed to apply the Sams debt toward your debt 
to Heal, in one transaction. Draw the paper. Name the parties. 

122. Make and close a mdse. account. 

123. Post these journal . entries and close the ledger, determining 
present worth. , 

1. Cash $2000 

T. Sams 135 

To Student $1860 

S. Thatch 275 

2 . Mdse 1920 

To Cash 960 

U. Heal 960 

3. Mdse 1040 

To Bills Payable 1040 

4. Expense 45 

To Cash 46 

5. Cash 450 

W. Burley 320 

To Mdse 770 

6. Bills Receivable 780 

To Mdse 780 

8. S. Thatch 275 

To Cash 275 

9. U. Heal 135 

To T. Sams 135 

10. Expense 5 

To Cash ; 5 

26. Cash 774 . 80 

Discount 5.20 

To Bills Receivable 780 

26. Inventory 1825 

124. Write a negotiable note bearing 69f interest from date in which 
you are maker and J. Dash payee. 

125. Write a draft with yourself as payee, A. Blank as drawee, and B. 
Line as drawer. 



116 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

126. Write a check in favor of S. Crews. Illustrate two ways of en- 
dorsing; this. 

127. Illustrate how the Proprietor's account is closed. 

128. Make a statement of an account with a general merchandise store 
and properly receipt it. 

12&. Journalize: 

1. Student commences business with cash, $1000. 

2. Buys a bill of mdse. for cash, $156. 

3. Sells a bill of mdse. for cash, $73. 

4. Pays rent of store in cash, $40. 

5. Buys mdse. from J. Grant, $204. 

6. Sells mdse. to L. Irish, $152; rec's cash, $100. 

7. Sells mdse. on note at 30 days with interest, $169. 

8. Buys mdse., $345. Gives note at 30 days with interest, $200; cash 
$100; balance due to S. Dann. 

9. Student withdraws cash from business, $75. 

130. Write a letter to some firm in a distant city ordering a list of 
articles. Carefully itemize. 

131. Which side of the cash account must always be the larger? 
Why? 

132. Give your method of teaching the general rules for debit and credit. 

133. Define investment, net investment, drawing account, interest. 

134. What is meant by dividends? Who is entitled to dividends? 

135. Give three reasons why a business man should have some knowl- 
edge of bookkeeping. 

136. Make a merchandise account that shall have at least three entries 
on each side, enter thereon a merchandise inventory, and so arrange it that 
when the account is closed it will show a loss. Then close the account. 

137. Show how you would close the proprietor's account in the ledger: 
(a) when there is a loss; (b) when there is a gain. 

138. Journalize : 

Feb. 1. Student commences business with cash, $1500; mdse. $750. 

Feb. 2. Bought mdse. from Albert Baum on account, $235. 

Feb. 3. Sold mdse. to Charles Dean on his note at 60 days with 
interest at 1%, $186. 

Feb. 4. Bought of Ed. Fane, mdse., $425. Paid cash, $200. Balance 
by note at 30 days with interest at 7%. 

Feb. 8. Borrowed at bank, $200 for 40 days, paying interest in 
advance at 10</r per annum. 

Feb. 13. Sold Geo. Hedge, mdse., $375. Received in part payment 
cash, $250. 

Feb. 21. Discounted my note of the 4th at 10% per annum, paying 
cash for balance. 

Feb. 27. Charles Dean has this day discounted his note at 10% per 
annum, paying balance in cash. 

139. Define: Resource, liability, loss, gain. 

140. What does the trial balance show? The balance sheet? 

141. Define: Bills receivable, bills payable, debtor, creditor. 

142. Give rules for journalizing interest. 

143. Define: (a) Insolvency; (b) inventory. 

144. On which side of a cash account must the balance be entered? 
Why? 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 117 



145. Write the term or title represented by each of the following 
abbreviations: (a) Exch.; (b) L. F.; (c) Bo't; (d) P. C. B.; (e) Sunds.; 
(f) B. B.; (g) C. O. D.; (h) Pkg.; (i) Exp,; (j) F. O. B, 

146. Distinguish betv.een (a) resource and liability; (b) debit and 
credit; (c) a bankrupt and an insolvent person. 

147. What is an inventory, and what is its use? 

148. Make the day-book, journal and ledger entries required by the 
following transactions : 

Sept. 1. Bought of James & Son on my note at 60 days, 500 yds. 
silk at 98c; 20 bolts ribbon at $1.25; 40 yds. of lining at 7c. 

Sept. 2. Sold to J. Lawson for cash 10 yds. silk at $1.50; 5 yds. of 
ribbon at 20c. 

Sept. 3. Sold J. Bentz for cash 15 yds. silk at $1.50; 7 yards lining 
at 15c. 

Sept. 4. Paid for rent $30; for clerk hire $30. 

149. What words on commercial paper make them negotiable? Illus- 
trate by a form of check or note. 

150. Name three ledger accounts that will show losses or gains, and 
three that will show resources or liabilities. 

AGRICULTURE 

1. What is soil? Describe the ideal soil. 

2. What are the conditions necessary for plant growth? 

3. Give the purpose of tillage. 

4. Give directions for planting, care of, cutting and storing alfalfa 

5. Give directions for transplanting the elm; also the tomato. 

6. Why should apple trees be sprayed in this locality? 

7. For what are these especially desirable: Clydesdale horses, Ply- 
mouth Rock chickens. Short Horn cattle? 

8. A "low" remains over western South Dakota for two or three dayr^. 
What is the wind direction in Nebraska, and the probable weather 
conditions. 

9. Give reasons for protecting the birds other than song birds. 

10. Define: subsoil, organic soil, virgin soil, artificial soil. 

11. From what sources does the soil receive v\-ater? What soil 
conditions are favorable to the retention of moisture? 

12. What kind of soil can best withstand hot, dry weather? Why? 

13. "As a rule, the farmers that grow and feed the most clover have 
the most fertile farms." Explain. 

14. In what three ways do weeds injure other growing plants? 

15. Discuss the importance of careful seed selection under the follow- 
ing heads: (a) kind; (b) condition. 

16. Name four probable causes of failure ot seeds to germinate. 

17. What is the present Nebraska law relative to the killing of quails? 
Of what value is this law to the farmer? 

18. Mention a pest and its prevention or remedy for (a) a farm crop; 
(b) a domestic animal; (c) a fruit tree. 

19. What do you consider the most valuable results to be secured 
from school gardening? Name some points that should be carefully observ- 
ed in agricultural experiment work. 

20. (a) What is the purpose of crop rotation? (b) What is meant 
by soil wearing out? 



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21. Define (a) humus; (b) Loam; (c) fertilizer; (d) graft; (e) 
budding. 

22. What elements in the soil and air are considered plant food? 

23. (a) What is propagation? (b) Mention three conditions necessary 
to germination of seeds. 

24. (a) In what forms is water found in the soil? (b) Give two ways 
by which the soil's capacity for water may be increased. 

25. (a) Give five general uses of the animal, (b) What gain is made 
in converting the crop into animal products? 

26. (a) Mention two reasons for the cultivation of soil. (b) Which 
is of the most importance? 

27. Define pollination, and name some of the agencies which serve to 
bring it about. 

28. Discuss the importance of field excursions in connection with the 
study of agriculture in the school. 

29. Explain how weeds and underbrush waste valuable soil water in 
dry weather. Have weeds ever any value to farm land? 

80. Describe an experiment to prove that plants contain mineral 
matter derived from the soil. 

31. Give two distinct reasons why soil should be porous. 

32. When may it be said of land that it is "run down"? What may 
be done to restore such land? 

33. What are parasites? What is the Bordeaux mixture? 

34. Explain the importance of packing the soil about planted seeds 

35. What is the purpose of grafting? Illustrate with drawings a meth- 
od of grafting. 

36. (a) Discuss the value of toads to the farmer or gardener. (b) 
State reasons why the English sparrow should, if possible, be exterminated. 

37. Explain how the death of animals and plants contributes to the 
fertility of the soil. 

38. (a) Name the five leading plants cultivated in Nebraska. (b) 
What peculiarity or habit makes each of value to use? 

39. (a) What is plant disease? (b) Name a disease which effects 
each of the five chief crops of Nebraska. 

40. Explain why birds are protected by law. 

41. (a) Give two ways in which nature often protects its plants from 
the frost, (b) How may the farmer do it? 

42. Name four useful domestic animals and give the use of each. 

43. Name the five most harmful insects in Nebraska. 

44. Discuss the value of tree culture with relation to the future growth 
and development of western Nebraska. 

45. What place have the earth-worm, ant and all burrowing animals 
taken in the work of soil making? 

46. (a) Mention some of the advantages of drainage. (b) How is it 
best effected? 

47. Name the species of corn and wheat that prevail in Nebraska. 
.48. Give the names of three kinds of swimming birds and tell what 

they eat. 

49. In what way do scavenger insects aid man? 

50. How does the parent plant give the young plant a "start in life"? 

51. Explain the source of sweet potato plants and of Irish potato 
plants. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 119 

52. Give three ways in which the air mav be cooled to form rain. 

53. What are the distinguishing characteristics of roadsters and draft 
horses? 

54. (a) Give common instances of lack of care of domestic animals, 
(b) Give the injury, financial or otherwise, from such neglect. 

55. Give approximate dates for planting each of the following: fieU) 
corn, winter wheat, oats, Irish potatoes, apple trees. 

56. Why is the common house cat a great enemy to the farmer? 

57. What is the advantage gained (a) by treating seed potatoes to 
a formalin bath before planting; (b) by spraying the foliage of the 
potato plant? 

58. Distinguish between budding and grafting. 

59. Mention two ways in- which the farmer may be benefited by 
the United States weather predictions. 

60. What is the chief value of the state and county fair to the 
farmer? 

61. How would you treat wheat seed to prevent smut in the future 
crop? 

62. What is the purpose of tilling the soil soon after a rain? 

63. How do grasses tend to renew worn-out land? 

64. There is always an open or "dead" turrow in the middle of a 
plowed "land." Give two reasons why plants will not grow well in such 
a furrow. 

65. Distinguish between insecticide and fungicides. 

66. How should a poor and shallow soil be plowed? Why? 

67. Name Nebraska's greatest forage crop, and state how the 
present method of farming is wasteful of its food products. 

68. Describe the work of the codling moth, and suggest a method of 
combatting the same. 

69. In not more than seventy-five words, distinguish between "diversi- 
fied farming" and ' rotation of crops," and state the advantages of each. 

• 70. (a) Define agriculture. (5) (b)Tell why the study of agricul- 
ture is of especial importance to people of Nebraska. (5) 

71. (a) What is meant by poor soil? (4) (b) Tell how poor /?oil 
may be improved. (6) 

72. (a) What benefits may be derived from the snows that have 
fallen since the first of December? (5) (b) How may farmers conserve 
the moisture in the soil? (5) 

73. (a) What is dry farming? (5) (b) How may irrigation be car- 
ried on in many parts of Nebraska? (5) 

74. (a) Where is the corn belt? (5) (b) What conditions limit its 
area? (5) 

75. (a) State the chief differences between draft hor.-es and driving 
horses. (5) (b) Name two breeds of each type. (5) 

76. (a) Name three breeds of dairy cattle. (5) (b) Name three 
breeds of beef cattle. (5) 

77. (a) State the difference between intensive farming and extensive 
farming (5) (b) Which is the more profitable in the eastern part of 
Nebraska? State reason for your answer. (5) 

78. Formulate a balanced ration for a milk cow; for a fattening 
steer. 

79. Explain the difference in effect on the soil of corn and clover; 



120 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

millet and alfalfa. 

80. What is the Bordeaux mixture? What is its use? 

81. Explain the relation of bacteria and crop production. 

82. Give a good method of rotating crops for a Nebraska farmer. 

83. Define: Pests, weeds, soil, subsoil, pedigi-eed stock. 

84. What is the purpose of grafting? Distinguish between grafting 
and budding. 

85. Describe a method of testing seed corn. 

86. Give the characteristics of a Percheron horse. Give the charac 
teristics of Hereford cattle. 

87. Give proofs that farmers should do more "intensive" farming 
rather than "extensive" farming. 

88. What is the most desirable kind of sub-soil for general farming 
purposes? 

89. Give five reasons why boys who expect to live on the farm 
should receive agricultural education. Give five reasons why all girls 
should receive education in home economics. 

90. Name Nebraska's leading crops and state Avhat is considered a 
good yield of each. 

91. What is the Campbell system of soil culture? State its ad- 
vantages. 

92. What is the best variety of winter wheat grown in Nebraska? 

93. Name the elements contained in good soil? 

94. What is the average rainfall in the eastern portion of Nebraska? 
In the central portion? In the western portion? 

95. Name the enemies to the wheat crop in Nebraska. Name the 
enemies to the corn crop in Nebraska. 

96. How much wheat is required to seed an acre? Oats? Barley? 

97. Name one of the leading breeds of driving horses. Of work 
horses. 

98. State the best methods of keeping soil fertile. 

99. Give reasons for and against using the two-row corn cultivator. 

100. Give four reasons for trying to raise the standard of com- 
munity life in the country. 

101. Plat an ideal farm-yard. Carefully name the parts. 

102. Write at least ten lines on the securing and management of 
farm labor. 

103. Give three things to be observed in the storage of seed. 

104. What is a silo? Its use? Its advantages? 

105. What is the object of pruning? Discuss the pruning of apple 
trees. 

106. Give ten factors determining the value of a farm as an invest- 
ment and home. 

107. What is an ideal seed-bed? Give reasons for your answer. 

108. What variety of corn, winter wheat, oats and barley is suited 
to Nebraska conditions? 

109. If trees are to be watered or fertilizers applied, where should 
be the application and why? 

110. What is meant by the term "heavy soil"? How may it be made 
lighter? 

111. Give the difference between organic matter and humus. 

112. Give three forms in which water exists in the soil. Which is 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 121 

the most important? 

113. Name four dairj^ breeds of cattle. "Where did each originate? 

114. Give a brief discussion of the benefits of a silo as applied to 
Nebraska conditions. 

115. What is the theory of the natural selection? How does ii 
apply in agriculture? 

116. How do the root-hairs take up water? What is the importance 
of water to the plant? 

117. What is the value of legumes in soil building? 

118. Discuss timothy as a forage and meadovv^ plant in Nebraska. 

119. Give three distinct methods of fighting noxious weeds. 

120. Explain fully why the scale and Babcock test is necessary to 
successful dairying. 

121. Why are the ears on a cornstalk not always filled out? How 
may this be cured? 

122. Are small potatoes as good as large ones for planting? Discuss 
reasons for your answer. 

123. Would you advise a farmer to select and store his own seed 
corn? Why? 

124. What difficulties confront a teacher in producing a successful 
school garden? If you have attempted school gardening please state 
results. 

125. Give characteristics of a standard beef-breed of cattle, also char- 
acteristics of a standard dairy breed. 

126. What materials do plants get from the soil? What do they 
get from the air? 

127. Why do clover and alfalfa restore the fertility to soil, and why 
do they make such excellent food for stock? 

128. How does proper tillage increase the producing power of soil? 

129. Why should the farmer make a careful study of insects? 

130. How should the rations of a cow differ from those of a horse? 

131. What is the best time for transplanting trees and how should 
it be done? 

132. What aims are to be reached by the teaching of agriculture? 

133. Which wheat, spring or winter, does best in Nebraska? Why':* 

134. What are the worst plant diseases in Nebraska? How may 
each be controlled? 

135. Mention one spray, give its comi)osition, and tell for v/hat it 
is used? 

136. How would you feed alfalfa and corn in fattening 1200-lb. steers? 

137. Give four methods of plant propogation. 

138. When does land require irrigation? Name the largest irrigation 
districts in Nebraska. 

139. How does barn-yard manure lose in value when not properly 
cared for? 

140. Discuss the value of the farm wood-Jot. 

141. What are the components of feeds? Which component is most 
valuable in flesh building? 

142. Name three breeds of sheep. Why are not more sheep raised 
in Nebraska? 

143. What are the ways by which water is removed from the soil? 
Of what importance is moisture in the soil? 



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144. What is r. green manure crop? What are two benefits to be 
derived from farm manure? 

145. To what extent should summer tillage be practiced? At what 
season should it bo practiced the most? Why? 

146. What is the Illinois canker, pear blight, plum curculio, sunscald. 
natural grafting ? 

147. Should an orchard be cultivated in the fall, and why? How 
may a low headed tree be secured? 

148. What is a dual purpose animal? Are they as profitable as a 
pure bred animal? Discuss. 

149. Give two effects of hot winds in Nebraska. What crop do 
they affect the most and why? 

150. Discuss the benefits of "Farmers' Institutes." 

151. Make a comparison of beef and dairy cattle as to: Form, head, 
neck, shoulders, back, flank, loins, thighs, udder, skin and hair. 

152. Give the best method of tilling and cultivating a crop of corn 
in Nebraska, taking it from the time of preparing the field until the crop 
is "laid by." 

153. What is the value of seed testing and germination? 

154. What are the worst five weeds in the neighborhood? What is 
the character that makes each one a bad weed, that is, able to live in 
spite of man? How may each one be most easily controlled? 

155. For what are these especially desirable: Percheron horses, 
Plymouth Rock chickens, Holstein cattle, Berkshire hogs. 

156. What plant food elements are most apt to be deficient in the 
soils? How may they be replaced? 

157. Which is the greatest drain on the soil moisture, evaporation 
or transpiration? Explain each. 

158. Which crop requires the better seed-bed, corn or alfalfa? Give 
your reasons. 

159. Why is a mixture of grasses better in a pasture than one good 
grass? 

160. Of what importance is humus in a sandy soil, in a clay soil'' 

161. Give four benefits derived from an orchard windbreak. On what 
side or sides should the windbreak be planted in Nebraska? Why? 

162. What is a maintenance ration, balanced ration, in regard to a 
dairy cow? 

163. Give three cautions for stacking hay. 

164. Discuss the benefits to be derived from the several experiment 
stations in Nebraska. 

165. What is a nurse crop, cover crop, catch crop? When is each 
grown? 

166. What is meant by structure of the soil, plasticity, texture, 
porosity? 

167. Should an orchard be planted on a level or a slope? Give two 
reasons. What is a pome fruit? 

168. Suppose a Jersey cow and a Hereford cow weigh the same and 
one is as fat as the other. Which will sell at the highest price for beef? 
Give three reasons for your answer. 

169. Discuss the importance of a "Farm Demonstrator." 

170. Which would be best: A little rain every day, or a good rain 
once a week? Why? 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 123 

171. What is the difference in color of hill-sides and bottom-lands? 
Why? 

172. Which is heavier, sand or clay? Why do farmers call a clay 
soil "heavy"? 

173. What has heredity to do vi^ith agriculture? (Both in plant and 
animal husbandry.) 

174. What effect has the time of cutting alfalfa on its value as an 
animal food ? 

175. Explain why the following are sometimes added to the soil: 
Ground bone, wood-ash, lime. 

176. Discuss red clover as a forage and meadow plant for Nebraska. 

177. Give an effective way of controlling: The Colorado beetle, 
mosquitos, the codling moth. 

178. Give four points in the care of the horse. 

179. What is the cause of a sour soil? The cure? 

180. How may a pasture be kept permanent? Is it advisable lO 
maintain a pasture permanently in one place? 

181. Give five rules in obtaining clean milk. 

182. What effect on farming have the dates of the last killing frost 
in the spring, and the first killing frost in the fall? 

183. Will mulching the soil or tilling it affect the time of blossoming 
of a tree? 

184. How would you save a potato crop from the potato bug? 

185. Name all the plant pests you know which operate against crops 
to prevent a perfect yield. 

186. Name the elements removed from the soil by a crop of corn. 

187. What breed of cattle would you buy for dairy purposes? Why 
would you prefer them to other breeds? Why to scrub stock? 

188. Give methods of fighting rust in small grains. 

189. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of listing corn. 

190. What should be the ideal type of horse for general farm work? 

191. What crop would you advise as most profitable on sandy land 
and why ? 

192. How would you proceed to build up run down soil? 

193. Describe a good germination test. 

194. What does drainage do for land? Why is under-drainage most 
desirable? 

195. Give five points by which you would judge an ear of corn. 

196. Why are large forests about the headlands of streams valuable 
to the farmers down in the valley? 

197. What are the functions of the proteids, fats, and carbo-hydrates 
in flesh-building? 

198. Describe an ideal poultry house for two or three dozen hens. 

199. Discuss the advantages of raising thoroughbred, or purebred 
stock. 

200. Discuss tuberculosis and its prevention among stock. 

201. Give five good reasons for cultivating crops. 

202. What class of plants is best for strengthening the soil? Why? 

203. Which is usually more- profitable for the farmer to market, 
grain or animals? Why? 

204. Are snakes, toads, frogs and lizards useful or injurious to man? 
Give reasons for your answer. 



124 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

205. What is an insect? Name two that are useful and two that 
are injurious and tell why. 

206. Name three parasites that are injurious to crops in Nebraska 
and how to deal with them. 

207. Give causes of winds; of rain. 

208. Give three valuable foods for fattening- cattle; three for milch- 
cows; three for work horses. 

209. (a) What two of the following plants are best for enriching the 
soil: corn; oats; clover; alfalfa; timothy; wheat; and rye. (b) How do 
they enrich the soil? 

210. (a) Which is better, to sow fall wheat broad cast or use a press 
drill? (b) Give reason for your answer. 

211. From the point of economy, do you consider a hedge fence 
desirable? Give two reasons for your answer? 

212. Name the four grasses most valuable as crops to the Nebraska 
farmer. 

213. What three objects should the farmer have in view when culti- 
vating the soil? 

214. Name one good farm journal. 

215. Name three ways in which animals have helped to make and 
enrich soil. 

216. In what three ways does soil hold moisture? 

217. Name Nebraska's three most important forage crops. Three 
most important grain crops. 

218. What advantages are there in deep tillage of the soil? 

219. What preparation should the farmer make for wintering his 
stock, and how can he best prepare his stock for winter? 

220. What is the best means of protecting fruit against the usual 
pests? Tell how and when. 

221. Name the three leading cereals in Nebraska and two other lead- 
ing crops. 

222. You want to buy seed. A neighbor has good crops of 
the varieties you want; would it be better to buy of him or purchase 
seed shipped in? Why? 

223. What difference between the stomach of the horse and of the 
cow and what difference should this make in feeding? 

224. Western land that was almost barren has become very produc- 
tive under irrigation. Explain just what water does to cause this pro- 
ductiveness. 

225. Name five breeds of cattle, telling which are dairy and which 
are beef types. Tell also from what part of the world they come. 

226. Give some of chief distinctions between draft horses and road 
horses, meaning physical differences. 

227. Name five fruits and an enemy of each. 

228. What crops furnish the most nitrogen to the soil? Which use it? 

229. Give the names of three breeds of the following classes of 
animals: Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens. 

230. Give brief but specific directions for making butter. 
(Directions are to begin with the milking of the cow and end with 

the marketing of the butter.) 

231. Discuss black knot, potato blight, rust. 

232. Name the vital or seed producing parts of a flower. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 125 

233. Name some of the leading plant fiber crops. 

234. (a) How is milk pasteurized? (b) What causes milk to sour? 
(c) How may it be kept sweet? 

235. What is the value of alfalfa (1st) for feeding stock, (2nd) for 
enriching the soil? Explain why it is of value in each case. 

236. Discuss the plum curculio, 

237. What is the United States government doing to conserve the 
lumber supply? 

238. Name the meat breeds of chickens, the egg breeds. 

239. Describe the Babcock milk test. 

240. Tell what you can of the seventeen year locust. 

241. What are stoloniferous plants? How should seed corn be carea 
for? 

242. Name a tree, a shrub, and an herb that are grown in Nebraska 
without planting the seeds. Tell how it is done in each case. 

243. Explain the process of grafting an apple tree. 

244. What do you understand by scientific agriculture? 

245. How may a crop, other than a legume, benefit the land? 

246. What is the function of lime in the soil? 

247. What is the advantage of a quick acting fertilizer? Name two 
or more. 

248. What are the essentials of a good dairy cow? What breed do 
you consider best for Nebraska? Give reasons. 

249. WTiat are the general rules for cultivating corn? The value 
of the crop as compared with wheat or oats? 

250. How do new varieties of wheat arise naturally? Explain. 

251. What is meant by "inoculation of the soil" and what is its 
purpose? 

252. How would you encourage a love for birds in your school? 

253. How would you select seed potatoes and what would you notice 
especially? 

254. How should wounds left by pruning be cared for and why? 

255. Explain what is meant by a "low" and a "high" barometer. 

256. What soil is best for general purposes? Give reasons. 

257. Suggest a good crop rotation. 

258. What is "crossing" and how done? 

259. What is a tornado? How different from an ordinary thunder 
storm? 

260. Why does boiled milk keep sweet much longer than other milk 

261. How and when could a biennial weed be destroyed most easily? 
Name one such weed. 

262. Give a common breed of draft, roadster and coach horses. 

263. Why do many seeds such as corn, wheat, rice, etc., have a 
high food value? Explain. 

264. How can we determine whether a fruit blossom has been 
injured by the frost? 

265. Describe an experiment which illustrates the capillarity of the 
soil. 

266. Give the legal weight per bushel of the following products: 
Wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and rye. 

267. Suggest at least two ways by which you could supplement the 
work offered by your text-book in agriculture at a small cost. 



125 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

26S. What is "a fertilizer?" Name three fertilizers and tell how 
they should be used. 

269. Define pollination, and name two of the agencies which seem 
to bring it about. 

270. What are parasites? What is the Bordeaux mixture? 

271. Name a breed of dairy cow that excels in each of the fol- 
lowing: Quantity of milk produced, quality of milk produced. 

272. Name two beef breeds of cattle; two breeds of draft horses. 

273. Define: Soil, capillarity, porosity. 

274. What three elements in the soil are essential to plant growth? 

275. Name and illustrate, by drawing, the different methods of bud- 
ding and grafting. 

276. What is a hybrid, or a cross, and how developed? 

277. How should the stumps be cared for when limbs are removed? 
Why? 

278. What is cream? What breeds of cows yield the largest per 
cent of cream? The greatest amount of milk? 

279. Tell all that you can of bee culture. 

280. What would you plant for a permanent pasture and why? 

281. Describe the easiest means of propagating (a) raspberries, (b) 
strawberries, and (c) gooseberries. 

282. What is the composition of milk? How does it rank as a food? 

283. Why do clouds and wind make frost less likely to occur? 

284. Define (a) humus; (b) loam; (c) fertilizer; (d) graft; (e) bud- 
ding. 

285. What has been Nature's method of forming soil unaided by man? 

286. Why is soil under a plank usually moist and what should this 
teach us in regard to cultivation? 

287. What legume crops are best adapted to rotation in Nebraska, 
and why? Should a legume be in every rotation, and why? 

288. What is meant by "mining the land"? How can it be remedied? 

289. Give one good point and one weak point for the following: 
Holstein cow, Jersey cow, Clydesdale horse, Hereford cow, Percheron 
horse. 

290. What importance is aeration and warmth to the soil? 

291. What is a balanced ration? Give one for a work horse. 

292. Define: pollination, budding, capillary attraction, osmosis. 

293. What is the "short course" at the school of Agriculture? Would 
you recommend it? Why? 

294. What is the agriculture value of the state fair? 

295. What are the reasons for stacking grain? For threshing from 
the shock? 

296. How may organic matter be introduced into the soil? 

297. What food elements are found in oats, in clover? 

298. Name and discuss four points to be considered in judging of 
draft horses. 

299. Name a disease that attacks potatoes. How can it be controlled? 

300. Give four reasons for practicing a rotation of crops. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK l27 

GEOMETRY 

1. Define postulate, and axiom; and give two of each. 

2. State and prove a theorem having for its conclusion, "The two 
lines are parallel," 

3. Theorem: In an isosceles trapezoid, the opposite angles are sup- 
plementarj'. 

4. Theorem: In the same circle or in equal circles, equal chords 
are equally distant from the center. 

5. Theorem: The area of a circle is one-half the product of the 
radius into the circumference. 

6. Find the locus off a point equidistant from two given intersecting 
lines. (Prove.) 

7. Problem, To construct a triangle having given the three sides. 

8. Theorem: Two mutually equiangular triangles are similar. 

9. Problem: The distance from the center of a circle to a chord 
12 inches long is 10 inches. Find the area of the circle. 

10. Problem. To construct a square equivalent to the sum of two given 
squares. 

11. Theorem: If two angles of a triangle are- equal, the sides 
opposite are equal and the triangle is isosceles. 

12. Theorem: The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is equal 
to two right angles taken as many times less two as the figure has sides. 

13. Theorem: The line joining the center of a circle to the middle 
of a chord, is perpendicular to the chord. 

14. Define circle, radius, tangent, secant, segment, sector. 

15. If the perimeter of a rectangle is 72 feet and the length is 
twice the width, what is the area? Solve. 

16. What part of a parallelogram is the triangle formed by drawing 
a line from one vertex to the middle of a nonadjacent side? Explain. 

17. A chord of a circle is 24 and the diameter of the circle is 26. 
How far from the center to the chord? 

18. The square of the diagonal of a parallelopiped is equal to the 
sum of the squares of the other three dimensions. Prove. 

19. A tree casts a shadow 90 feet long \\hen a vertical rod 6 feet 
high casts a shadow 4 feet long. How high is the tree? 

20. Classify and define triangles (a) as to sides, (b) as to angles. 

21. Theorem. If the diagonals of a qradrilateral bisect each other, 
the figure is a parallelogram. 

22. Theorem. Through three points not in the same straight line, 
one circumference and only one can be passed. 

23. In any right angled triangle the .square of the hypotenuse is 
equivalent to the sum of the squares of the two legs. 

24. Problem. In two similar polygons, two homologus sides are 15 
feet and 25 feet, respectively. The area of the first is 450 square feet. 
What is the area of the second? 

25. If from a point without a circle, a tangent and a secant are 
drawn, the tangent is a mean proportional between the whole secant and 
its external segment. 

26. Problem: To find a fourth proportional to three given lines. 

27. Distinguish between theorem and problem. 

28. Theorem: If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, the 
exterior-interior angles on the same side of the transversal are equal. 



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29. Theorem: Two triangles are equal if two sides and the included 
angle of one are equal to two sides and the included angle of the other. 

30. Theorem: The bisectors of the angles of a triangle meet in a 
point which is equally distant from the sides of the triangle. 

31. Problem: To construct a circle having a given radius, and 
passing through two given points. 

32. Problem: To circumscribe a circle about a given triangle. 

33. Theorem: The bisector of an angle of a triangle divides the 
opposite side into segments proportional to the adjacent sides. 

34. Problem: To find a mean proportional betw^een two given 
straight lines. 

35. Define chord, circle, circumference, radius, sector. 

36. Construct a right triangle having given the hypotenuse and one 
side. 

37. At a given point in a line erect a perpendicular to that line. 

38. Theorem: An inscribed angle is measured by one-half the arc 
intercepted by its sides. 

39. What is a trapezoid? Parallelogram? Rhomboid? Square? 
Rhombus? 

40. Show how you would find the center of a circle. 

41. Problem: Construct a rectangle having given the perimeter and 
one side. 

42. Problem: Divide a given line into seven given parts. 

43. Problem: The diagonals of a trapezoid divide it into four tri- 
angles, two of which are similar while the other two are equivalent. 

44. Theorem: If two circles are tangent to each other, their line of 
center passes through the point of contact. 

45. Define postulate, and axiom; and give two of each? 

46. Theorem: The bisectors of the base angles of an isosceles tri- 
angle are equal. 

47. Theorem: The line drawn from the center of a circle to the 
middle of a chord is perpendicular to the chord. 

48. Problem: To inscribe a circle in a given triangle. 

49. Theorem: The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. 
Prove. 

50. Problem: To construct a circle having a given radius, and 
passing through two given points. 

51. Problem: To find a fourth proportional to three given lines. 

52. Find the area of a triangle if the sides are 104, 111 and 175. 

53. Theorem: If the diagonals of a quadrilateral bisect each other, 
the figure is a parallelogram. 

54. Theorem. Through three points not in the same straight line, 
one circumference and only one can be passed. 

55. Problem. In two similar polygons, two homologus sides are 
15 feet and 25 feet, respectively. The area of the first is 450 square 
/eet. What is the area of the second? 

56. If from a point without a circle, a tangent and a secant are 
drawn, the tangent is a mean proportional between the whole secant 
and its external segment. 

57. Draw and name the different quadrilaterals. 

58. Theorem: The line joining the middle points of two sides of a 
triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to one-half of the third 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 129 

side. Prove. 

59. Give the conditions under v/hicli triangles are similar. 

60. Problem: The homologous sides of two similar triangles are 
7 feet and 11 feet respectively. The area of the second is 242 square 
feet. Required the area of the first. 

61. Having given a:b=c:d, prove that a — b:a=c — d:c. 

62. Theorem: In the same circle or equal circles equal chords are 
equally distant from the center. Prove. 

63. Theorem: In a right triangle the median from the right angle 
to the hypotenuse is equal to half the hypotenuse. Prove. 

64. Problem: Find the area of a trapezoid of which the bases are 
73 feet and 57 feet, and each of the sides is 17 feet. 

65. Exercise: The area of the circumscribed square is double the 
area of the inscribed square. Prove. 

66. Define (a) line, (b) surface, (c) volume, (d) angle. 

67. Theorem: In an isosceles triangle the angles opposite the equal 
sides are equal. 

68. Define (a) circumference, (b) tangent, (c) radius, (d) arc. 

69. Theorem: An angle formed by two chords intersecting within 
the circumference is measured by one half the sum of the intercepted 
arcs. 

70. Problem: To construct an angle of 45 degrees. 

71. Problem: The sides of a triangle are 7, 9 and 11 respectively. 
Is the triangle right, acute, or obtuse? Wh>^ ? 

72. Problem: To construct a square equivalent to the sum of two 
given squares. 

73. Problem: The chord of a segment is 16 in. and the distance 
from the center of the circle is 6 in. Find the area of the circle. 

74. Theorem: If two straight lines intersect, the vertical angles are 
equal. 

75. Theorem: The diagonal of a parallelogram divides the figure 
into two equal triangles. 

76. Define concentric, circles, quadrant. 

77. Problem. To draw a straight line tangent to a given circle and 
parallel to a given line. 

78. Theorem: If four quantities are in proportion, they are in pro- 
portion by division. 

79. Define polygon. When are polygons similar? 

80. The base of an isosceles triangle is 60 inches, and each side is 
50 inches. Find the altitude and the area. 

81. Problem: To construct a square equivalent to a given rectangle. 

82. Theorem: If tw^o lines are perpendicular to a third line, they 
are parallel. 

83. Theorem: The diagonals of a rectangle are equal. 

84. Problem: To inscribe a circle in a given triangle. 

85. If four quantities are in proportion they are in proportion by 
inversion. Prove. 

86. Theorem: The area of a triangle is one-half the product of the 
base by the altitude. 

87. If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, the sum of the 
interior angles on the same side of the transversal is equal to two right 
angles. 



130 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

88. The area of a trapezoid is equal to one-half the sum of the 
parallel bases by the altitude. 

89. The perpendicular bisector of a chord passes through the centre 
of the circle. 

90. If four quantities are in proportion, they are in proportion by 
division. 

91. In a right triangle the perpendicular to the hypotenuse from the 
right angle is a mean proportional between the segm.ents of the hypo- 
tenuse. 

92. Problem: To find the locus of a point equidistant from the 
three sides of a triangle. 

93. The sides of a triangle are 12, 13 and 5. Find the area. 

94. Define supplementary angle, segment of a circle, locus of a point, 
tangent to a circle. 

95. Find the number of degrees in an angle if it is (a) one-fifth its 
supplement; (b) double its complement. 

96. Name and illustrate by drawings the different kinds of triangles, 
(a) with reference to sides; (b) with reference to angles. 

97. Theorem: The line which joins the middle points of the non- 
parallel sides of a trapezoid is parallel to the bases and is equal to 
one-half of their sum. 

98. Problem: To inscribe a square in a given circle. 

99. Theorem: If two circumferences intersect, the straight line 
joining their centers bisects their common chord at right angles. 

100. Problem: To construct a square equivalent io the sum of any 
number of given squares. 

101. Problem: Find a fourth proportional to three given straight 
lines. 

102. If the apothem of a regular hexagon is 10 inches, what is the 
area of the ring between the circumferences of its inscribed and cir- 
cumscribed circles? 

103. Find the locus of the center of a circle of -^ given radius and 
tangent to a given circle. 

104. Define quadrilateral, parallelogram, rectangle. 

105. The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. Prove. 

106. The bisector of an exterior angle of an isosceles triangle formed 
by producing one of the legs through the vertex, is parallel to the base. 
Prove. 

107. Define secant, sector, segment. 

108. To divide a given line into three equal parts. 

109. To construct an isosceles triangle having given the perimeter 
and the altitude. 

110. Find the locus of the middle point of a chord drawn from a 
given point in a given circumference. 

111. To divide a given straight line into parts proportional to any 
number of given lines. 

112. Theorem. The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. 

113. Theorem. The lines joining the middle points of the sides of 
any quadrilateral taken in order, enclose a parallelogram. 

114. Problem. To construct a circum.ference which shall have a 
given radius and shall pass through two given fixed points. 

115. Theorem: The opposite angles of an inscribed quadrilateral are 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 131 

supplementary. 

116. Problem. From a given external point, to let fall a perpen- 
dicular to a given line. 

117. Problem. A line 20 inches long is divided into an extreme and 
a mean ratio to determine the length of the segments. 

118. Problem. Find the area of an equilateral triangle if one side 
is 12 feet. 

119. Theorem, The area of a regular polygon is equal to half the 
product of its apothem by its perimeter. 

120. Problem. Find the area of a circle v^hose radius is 10 inches. 

121. Problem: To erect a perpendicular to a given line at a given 
point. 

122. Theorem: If the sum of two adjacent angles is two right 
angles their exterior sides are in the same straight line. 

123. Theorem: If two angles of a triangle; are equal the sides oppo- 
site are equal, and the triangle is isosceles. 

124. Define: (a) chord, (b) arc, (c) segment, (d) sector, (e) secant 

125. Theorem: A straight line can cut a circumference in only two 
points. 

126. Problem: To draw a circle with a given radius, which shall 
touch two given non-parallel lines. 

(How many circles may be drawn?) 

127. Problem: To construct a triangle, having given the base, one 
base angle, and the side opposite the given a.igle. 

128. Theorem: The bisector of an angle of a triangle divides the 
opposite side into segments proportional to the adjacent sides. 

129. Theorem: The area of a triangle is one half the product of 
the base by the altitude. 

180. Problem: Required the area of a regular hexagon inscribed in 
a circle whose radius is 6 inches. 

131. Theorem: The bisector of the angles of a triangle meet in a 
point. 

132. Theorem:. The lines joining the midale points of the sides of 
a quadrilateral, taken in order, enclose a parallelogram. 

133. Theorem: The angle formed by two chords intersecting within 
the circumference is measured by one-half of the sum of the intercepted 
arcs. 

134. Problem: To find a point equidistant from three given points 

135. Problem: To find a mean proportional between two given 
straight lines. 

136. Theorem: The opposite angles of an inscribed quadrilateral are 
supplementary. 

137. If two circles intersect, the common chord is perpendicular to 
the line joining their centres. 

138. In an isosceles triangle the angles opposite the equal sides are 
equal. 

139. Theorem: Two triangles are equal if two sides and an included 
angle of one are equal respectively to two sides and an included angle 
of the other. 

140. Problem : How many sides has a polygon the sum of whose 
interior angles is equal to 10 right angles? 

141. Theorem: If the diagonals of a quadrilateral bisect each other. 



132 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

the figure is a parallelogram. 

142. Theorem: A diameter perpendicular to a chord bisects the 
chord and the arc subtended by it. 

143. Problem: Given two intersecting lines AB and CD to construct 
a circle with a radius R that shall touch each of them. 

144. Discussion: How many constructions are there for No. 143? 

145. Theorem: The perimeters of two similar polygons have the 
same ratio as any two homologous sides. 

146. Two concentric circles have radii of G feet and 10 feet. Find 
the area of the circular ring included between the cercumferences. 

147. Construct an equilateral triangle having given its base and 
altitude. 

148. Prove that the circumscribed square is double the square in- 
scribed in the same circle. 

149. Find the length of the longest and the shortest chord that can 
be drawn through a point six inches from the center of a circle 24 
inches in diameter. 

150. The base of a triangle is 15 feet and its altitude is 8 feet. Fini 
the perimeter of an equivalent rhombus whose altitude is 6 feet. 

PHYSICS 

1. Describe three ways in which heat energy is distributed. Give 
examples of each. 

2. Describe the use of the syphon and discuss its limitations. 

3. Distinguish between reflection and refraction. 

4. What is the horsepower of an engine that will lift 10,000 bushels 
of wheat to the top of an elevator 70 feet higlj in 8 hours (1 bushel of 
wheat weighs 60 lbs.) 

5. Name and describe the four essential pyrts of the Morse electric 
telegraph. 

6. A stone attached to a string is whirleii around the hand. If the 
string breaks, what path will the stone describe? Discuss. 

7. Explain how to find the specific gravit> of the following classes 
of bodies: (a) Those heavier than water. (b) Those soluble in water, 
(c) Those lighter than water. 

8. What is meant by motion? Give Newton's three ways of motion. 

9. Name and define five properties of matter. 

10. Distinguish between mass and weight; between force and energy" 
between liquid and gas. 

11. State the principle of Archimedes and state what application is 
made of this principle. 

12. Explain the construction and use of a barometer. 

13. Give the three different kinds of levers. Explain in general 
terms under what circumstances each should be used. 

14. Discuss two methods of heat transference. 

15. What is light? Name four different kinds of lenses. 

16. What is spectrum analysis? What use is made of it? 

17. Describe the action of the galvanic cell. 

18. If the internal resistance of a Danieil cell of the gravity type 
is 4 ohms and its E. M. F. 1.08 volts, how- much current will 40 cells 
in series send through a telegraph line having a resistance of 500 ohms? 

19. Discriminate between cohesion and adhesion. 

20. Illustrate the different classes of levers. 



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21. Define potential and kinetic energy. 

22. What are fundamental tones? Over-tones? How may pitch bo 
changed? 

23. Define magnetism and give two uses ct the magnet. 

24. Give a substance which will illustrate each of the following 
properties: (a) Elasticity; (b) porosity; (c) density; (d) ductility. 

25. What advantage may be obtained by the use of two fixed and 
two movable pulleys? 

26. Define each of the following terms as applied to substance: 
Transparent, translucent and opaque. 

27. Make drav^ing of a siphon and explain why it works. 

28. Distinguish between gravity and gravitation. Give law of each 

29. Define: Weight, matter, molecule, mass, density. 

30. Define momentum. How is it measured? 

31. Describe three states of equilibrium. 

32. Describe the process of distillation. Of what use is it? 

33. Give one theory of light. Name the primary colors. 

34. Name the parts of a shadow, and show how each is formed, 

35. What is a lens? Show six kinds by drawings, 

36. Give general law of refraction of light. 

37. Show by drawing how a ray of light passes through a prism. 

38. What, in connection with electricity, is important to man? 

39. Define: Ampere, ohm, watt. 

40. A cistern 6 feet square and 10 feet deep is full of water. What 
is the pressure on one side of the cistern? What is the pressure on the 
bottom of the cistern? 

41. Upon what does the color of an object depend? What are com- 
plementary colors? 

42. State the three laws of falling bodies. 

43. Explain the difference between volume and density. 

44. What is indicated by the rising bai'ometer? What does the 
rapid fall of the barometer denote? What is denoted by a high, un- 
changing barometer? 

45. Explain the dew point, the freezing point, the boiling point. 

46. Define force, resultant forces, equilibrium. 

47. Explain by diagram or otherwise the operation and principle 
of the hydraulic press. 

48. What is the explanation of intensity of sound, pitch and tono 
quality ? 

49. Explain the formation of the rainbow. 

50. What is approximately the speed of light; of sound? 

51. What is the induction coil, and state its practical value. 

52. Define: Mechanics, velocity, acceleration. 

53. Give three laws of falling bodies. 

54. Give the essential part and shoA\ the principle of the siphon. (Use 
diagram.) 

55. Explain reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, and polari- 
zation of light. 

56. Discuss the human eye as an optical ii^strument. 

57. What is vaporization? Give three lavvs of ebulition. 

58. Show how each of the following is transferred into electrical 
energy: Heat, chemical energy, and mechanical energy. 



134 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

59. Describe ?. storage battery. 

60. Explain the Spectroscope. For what used? 

61. Write a dozen lines or more on some topic about electricity. 

62. Find the resultant of two forces acting on the same point, one 
tending- to move it due north with a force of 50 pounds, and one of 
75 pounds acting' north-east. Construct the paiallelogram. 

63. What is atmospheric pressure under ordinary conditions at sea 
level, and how would you prove you have given the correct answer? 

64. What is heat, in what two ways is it measured, and what are 
the units of measurem^ent? 

65. Why are wollen blankets good both for keeping a person warm 
in the winter and preserving ice from melting in the summer? 

66. If you were given a standard candle and all other necessary 
material, how would you determine the candle-power of your lamp? 

67. When is a body in stable equilibrium; unstable equilibrium; 
neutral equilibrium? 

68. Draw a diagram of a set of pulleys by which a force of 50 lbs. 
can support 250 lbs. What would be the mechanical advantage of thii-^ 
arrangement? 

69. Define latent heat, fusion, evaporation, condensation, absolute 
zero. 

70. Distinguish between longitudinal and transverse sound waves. 

71. What is the difference between static and dynamic electricity? 
Define the theory of magnetism. 

72. Give the difference between dynamo and an electric motor. 
Mention some of the well known uses of the latter. 

73. Give a substance which will illustrate each of the following 
properties; (a) cohesion, (b) elasticity, (c) porosity, (d) density. 

74. Two forces are 60 pounds and 85 pounds respectively. Find the 
greatest and the least resultant. 

75. A piece of granite weighs 14 pounds in the air, 9 pounds in water, 
and 10 pounds in kerosene. Find the specific gravity of the granite and 
of kerosene. 

76. Give som.e simple experiment to show absorption of heat by 
vaporization. 

77. Discuss capilarity. 

78. Give an experiment to show that air has weight. 

79. Compare the momenta of a ten pound weight moving 30 feet 
a second, and ?. 20 pound weight moving 60 feet a second. 

80. An arrow shot over a steeple reaches the ground in 6 seconds. 
How high is the steeple? 

81. Give theory of the conservation of energy. 

82. What is meant by porosity? How would you show that water i? 
porous ? 

83. What is meant by the buoyant force of fluids? What causes 
this force? 

84. Explain the pressure of confined gases. 

85. How long will it take a 3 horse power engine to raise 10 tons 
90 feet? 

86. Distinguish between mass and volume: between mass and weight; 
between mass and density. 

87. Give law for volume of gases under change of pressure (Boyle's 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 135 

Law;) and law for volume under change of temperature (Law of Charles.) 

88. Why are images formed by light passing tlirough an aperaturo 
inverted? 

89. Give four things that affect the resistance of an electric conductor. 

90. WTiat is a shadovv^? Name its parts. 

91. A candle 18 inches distant and a lamp 31 inches distant illuminate 
a screen equally. Find relative intensity of lights. 

92. Give law for reflection of light and draw a diagram showing 
that you know what the angle of incidence is. 

93. Define refraction and give laws. 

94. A bottle weighs 77 grs.; filled with water 193 grs.; filled with 
sulphuric acid 272 grs. Find specific gravity of acid. 

95. Give three illustrations of cohesion. 

96. Upon what does the pitch of a sound depend? 

97. How far will a body fall in seven seconds? 

98. Trace the line of no declination from pole to pole. 

99. Give illustration and discussion of heal produced by percussion. 

100. Discuss absolute temperature. 

101. Why does a chimney draw? Explain with some care. 

102. Give illustration of balanced, and of unbalanced forces, and tell 
how they differ. 

103. A person sitting in a swing throws a heavy weight horizontally. 
How is he affected thereby? Explain. 

104. An engine running at the rate of a mile a minute, exerts a 
constant tractile force of 3000 lbs. on its train. Express the work being 
done in horsepower. 

105. Explain the echo. 

106. Distinguish translucent from transparent substances, and give 
examples ot each. 

107. Give definition of force. 

108. Define equilibrium, inertia. 

109. Name a conductor and a non-conductor of heat. Give one 
illustration of a practical use of each. 

110. Give illustrations of the practical use of the inclined plane, the 
pulley, the wheel and axle, and the lever. 

111. Explain the speaking tube. 

112. Give the law for intensity of illumination. 

113. Which is heavier, a pound of pine wool or a pound of iron. 
Explain your answer. 

114. Two horses are harnessed abreast while plowing. How can you 
arrange so that one horse pulls only one-third as much as the other. 

115. The absolute zero is — 273 degi'ees C; what is this on the 
Fahrenheit scale? 

116. (a) What is the effect of striking a bell with different degrees 
of force? (b) What change in the vibration is produced? (c) What 
property of the sound remains the same? 

117. Of what advantage are lightning rods? Explain their effect 
upon electricity. 

118. Explain the "screw" from the standpoint of its being a machine. 

119. Explain the principle of the artesian well. 

120. Does evaporation occur from ice on a pond in Avinter? How do 
you account for it, if it does? 



136 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

121. Distinguish between reflection and refraction. 

122. Discuss convection as applied to heating and ventilating rooms. 

123. Define: Mass, friction, relative humidity, energy. 

124. Compare the speed of sound and light. Does this account for 
the fact that we cannot see around a corner but can hear around a 
building or other obstruction; if so, how? 

125. What is a siphon? Draw a diagram and explain the action of a 
siphon. 

126. Distinguish between musical sounds and noises. Upon what does 
pitch depend? 

127. What is meant by absolute temperature? Reduce 50"C to ab- 
solute temperature. 

128. Give some experiment to prove that air would expand into 
greater space than it now occupies if it only had a chance. 

129. What conditions favor crystalization from solution? 

130. Name the simple machines. When these gain force what do 
they lose? 

131. Discuss the value of Physics in every day life. 

132. What is the value of binocular vision? 

133. (a) State Archimedes' principles, (b) A solid weighing 695 grams 
in air, loses 83 grams when placed in water. What is its density? 

134. Define density. If a piece of marble weighing 103 g. displaces 
23cc of water, what is its density? 

135. Discuss the kinetic theory of gases. How does it account for 
the pressure exerted by confined gases? 

136. In what three ways may heat be transferred? By which 
method does the heat travel from the sun to the earth? 

137. What is a galvonometer? An electrophorus? 

138. Explain the phenomenon of sound transmission. 

139. Distinguish between diffusion and absorption. 

140. Define mass; matter; volume. 

141. A gun whose mass is 7 lbs is loaded with a ball whose mass 
is 1/2 oz. When the gun is fired the ball has a velocity of 1500 ft. per 
second. Find the velocity of the gun's recoil. 

142. Define energy. What is the principle of the "Conservation of 
Energy"? 

143. A screw, the pitch of which is 1/4 inch, is turned by means of 
a lever 4 feet long. Find the force which will raise 250 lbs. 

144. To what is near sightedness due? How may it be corrected? 

145. When does an object feel hot? When cold? 

146. Would it be possible for two sounds to produce silence? Explain. 

147. Define magnetic substance; magnetic transparency. 

148. What is the cause of thunder? What causes the rumbling or 
rolling sound? 

149. When only can a body constrained to turn about a horizontal 
axis be in equilibrium? 

150. What would be the potential energy of a gallon of water in 
a tank 200 feet high? (Assume a gallon of water to w^eigh 8 lbs.) 



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ALGEBRA 

1. Write and define the signs of aggregation, also of operation. 

2. Define term, member, rational, surd, and multiple. 

3. Factor ab — ay-|-y= — by. 

4. Perform the operations indicated: 

x^'+x(a-|-b)+ab (x+a)(x+5) x=+7x+10 

X ^ 

x-+x(b-hc)+bc (x-fc)(x+3) x=+7x+12 

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 

5. Solve — X \ X = \ x — X 

2 4 6. 8 10 12 14 16 

6. Expand (a+2b)^ 

7. Extract the cube roct of a'^+3a'b+6a^b-+7a^'b^+6a-b^-f 3ab''+b* 

8. Solve this by each of three different methods of elimination: 

2x+3y=21 
3x+2y=19 

9. Separate 96 into three parts, such that the first part divided by 
the second gives a quotient of 2 and a remainder of 3; and the second 
divided by the third gives a quotient of 4 and a remainder of 5. 

10. If the product of two numbers is increased by their sum, the 
result is 89, but if the product is diminished by their sum the result is 
51. Required, the numbers. 

11. Simplify: 

4a=— J 5b=+a— [6a-— 3a — (b=— a) ] I 

12. How would you explain to a class that ; 

(—4a) (— 3)=12a? 

13. Factor (a) y^+3y=+6y+18 

(b) a-+b-— 2ab— c=— 2cd— d- 

14. Find the L. C. M. of x-+20x+91, x-^2x— 35, and x-+8x-;-15 

15. Solve: 

X-+6X+9 I X-— 9 X-+X— 6 ] 

^ ^ I 

X- — 4x+4 [ x=+4 X-—X—G J 

16. If to two-thirds of a certain number S is added, the sum is 10 
more than half the number. Required the number. 

17. There are three numbers such that the third less the second 
equals the second less the first; the third less the first equals the 
second; and the sum of the numbers is 24. Required the numbers. 

18. Expand by use of formula, putting all your work on your answer 
paper; (2x-3y)^= 

19. The floor of a certain room, which is 9 ft. high to the ceiling, 
has an area of 210 sq. ft., each of the two side walls 135 sq. ft., and each 
of the end walls 126 sq. ft. Find the other two dimensions of the room. 

20. A certain number is composed of two digits. The number is 
equal to four times the sum of the digits; and the sum of the squares of 
the digits is equal to five times the sum of the digits. Required the 
numbers. 

21. Define (a) term (b) equation (c) axiom. 

22. Factor (a) 5ab— bc+cd— 5ad. 

(b) 2xM-llx+12. 

23. Find the H. C. F. of x'— 5x2— 7x+35 ^nd x'— 3x-— 7x— 15. 



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24. Simplify : ] 

X X X — 1 

+ . I 

x^— 1 x^+1 x+1 I 

I 

25. What number is that which when multiplied by 16 gives the | 

same result as when added to 16? | 

26. Find two numbers the sum of whose reciprocals is 5, and such j 
that the sum of half the first and one-third or the second equals twice \ 
the product of the two numbers. | 

27. Extract the cube root of the following: I 

8x"— 36xy+66x^y-— 63x='y^+33x-y*— 9xy^-l-y« .i 

28. Solve the equation: ^ 

X-— 12x— 85=0 I 

29. Solve: i 

x- — xy+y-=3 | 

x'-+-xy+y==7 j 

30. There are two numbers such that the product of the first and ! 
one more than the second is 660, and the product of the second and one i 
less than the first is 609. What are the numbers? , 

31. Write the symbols (a) of operation, (b) of relation, (c) of 
aggregation. ■ 

32. Simplify: • 1 

111 

+ + : 

a(a-b)(a-c) b(b-a)(b-c) c(c-a)(c-b) ] 

33. Simplify: 

1 



l+x^* 

X — 

1 

X 

1— X 

34. A cistern is supplied by three pipes; the first can fill it in G 
hours, the second in 5 hours, and the third in 7 hours. How long will 
it take all three together? 

35. The sum of two numbers is 47, and the quotient of one divided 
by the other is 5 and the remainder is 5. Required the numbers. 

36. Expand: (3x— 2y-)' putting all your work on the answer paper. 

37. Solve: V x— i-f V x— 6=5 

38. A mirror 56 inches high and 60 inches wide has a frame of 
uniform width such that the area of the frame equals the area of the 

mirror. What is the width of the frame? 

39. The sum of two numbers is 30, and the sum of their squares is 
458. Required the numbers. 

40. Define (a) power, (b) exponent, (c) fraction, (d) quadratic 
equation, (e) linear equation. 

41. Factor: (a) 3x=^+x— 2. 

(b) x--|-ax — bx — ab. 

42. Find the H. C. F. of 2x^+9x^+llx+3 and 3x^+llx^+9x+2. 

43. Solve: 

1 n x+n 

- + = 

n x-fn nx 



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44. A's age is now two-fifths of B's, Eight year? ago A's age was 
Two-ninths of B's. Find their ages. 

45. Solve by comparison: 2x — 5y=66 

3x+2y=23 

46. The sum of the two digits of a number is D, and if the number 
is divided by the sum of its digits the quotient is 5. Find the number. 

47. Expand (2x— 3y)' 

48. Multiply 2\/3+3Vx by 3V3— 4\'x 

49. The perimeter of a rectangular field is 60 rods. Its area is 200 
sq. rds. Find its dimensions. 

50. Factor (a) x-+87x+86 

(b) 81a-+72ab-hl6 b= 

51. Simplify: 

a^+2a— 15 2=+9a+20 



a=+8a— 33 a-4-7a— 44 

52. If from 3/4 of a certain number 3 be subtracted, the remainder 
is 4 less than the number. Required the number, 

53. Required the square root of: 

a* 4 a' 

\ h2a=— 12a4-9 

9 3 

54. Expand by formula, putting all your work on the answer paper, 
f2x— 3y)* 

55. Solve: 

• X 
—=2 

y 

xy=S 

56. Simplify: 

4a==— ^ 5b=^-ha— [6a-— 3a— (b-— a) ] [ 

57. Define term, member, rational, surd, and multiple. 

58. Factor: a- — 2ab-f-b- — c- — 2cd — d-; also a^b — ab^+a-b-)- ab% 

59. Find the H. C. F. and L. C. M. of 

X-+X— 12, 
x=— 4x-f3. 
and x='+2x— 15. 

60. Solve: 

2x— 3 3x— 1 x-fl 1 



61. The sum of the two digits of a number is 9, and if the number 
is divided by the sum of its digits the quotient is 5. Find the number. 

62. Expand (2x+3y)* by formula, putting all work needed, on answer 
paper. 

63. Solve: 



3x+V4x— x=^ 

' = 2 

3x— V4x=3? 

64. Solve 2x2— x+a=2a^ 



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65. The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 inches. If the rectangle were 
J inches shorter and 8 inches wider, the diagonal would still be 25 inches, 
l^^ind the area of the rectangle. 

66. Factor (a) 5ab — bc+cd — 5ad. 

(b) 2x=+llx+12. 

67. Find the H. C. F. of: 

x^— 5x-— 7X+35 and x^^— 3x*— 7x— 15. 

68. Simplify: 

x X X — 1 

x^*— 1 x^'+l x+1 

69. What number is that which when multiplied by 16 gives the 
same result as when added to 16? 

70. Find two numbers the sum of whose reciprocals is 5, and such 
that the sum of half the first and one-third of the second equals twice 
the product of the two numbers. 

71. Extract the cube root of the following: 

8x«— 36x''^y+66xV— 63xV+33x=^y^— 9xy''+y« 

72. Solve the equation: 

X-— 12x— 85==0 

73. Solve: 

x= — xy+y===3 
x=+xy+y-=7 

74. There are two numbers such that the product of the first and 
one more than the second is 660, and the product of the second and one 
less than the first is 609. What are the numbers? 

75. What is a literal number; a general number; an irrational ex- 
pression? 

76. Factor (a) 25x^-f 4x-y=+4y\ 

(b) x»— 3x=y+3xy=^— y\ 

77. Find the L. C. M. and H. C. F. of: 

a^+1, a'' — 1, and a- — 1. 

78. Simplify: 

f 1 1 f 1 1 

i^' [-^x }- 

[ x^ J [ X J 

79. Find the value of x, y and z. 

2x+3y— 4z=10 
3x— 4y+5z=14 
4x— 5y+6z=18. 

80. A has 2/3 of his property invested at 4%, 1/4 invested at 37r, 
and the remainder at 2%. His income is $860, how much property has 
he? 

81. Using the binomial theorem perform work indicated: (2a+b=)^ 
Put all necessary work on answer paper. 

82. Find cube root of 64— 144p+156p=— 99p='+39p^— 9p^+p«. 

83. At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock will the hands of a clock 
be 15 minute spaces apart? 

84. The average age of three persons is 41 years. The average age 
of the first and second is 37 years and of the second and third is 29 
years. Find age of each. 

85. Find value of x, y and z: 



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x + y + z = 1 

X y 

- + - + 4z = 1 
2 4 

5x 3y z 

- + = 

[3 4 2 

86. Factor 21x-— 4xy— 32y= and 

25x- — lOxy — 9z=+y-. 

87. Simplify: 

1 

1 

2 

X 

88. A man sold 12 acres more than 1/4 of his farm, and had 2 
acres less than 5/8 of it left. How many acres had he at first? 

89. Find two numbers such that the sum of their reciprocals is 
24 2 

, and the difference of their reciprocal is -. 

143 143 

90. Find the H. C. D. and the L. C. M. of 

x-+2x— 24; 2x--f7x— 30 and x-^— 64. 

91. The perimeter of a rectangular field is 168 rods and its area is 
9 acres. Find the length of its sides. 

92. Write a rational expression using the radical sign. Distinguish 
between a monimial and a polynomial. 

93. ^^a^+3a==b+6a-+12ab+3ab^+b^^-12a+12b+6bH:8, 

94. Simplify: 

1 



1 — a 



1 + a . 

95. Define power, root, coefficient, polynomial, exponent. 

96. (a) Interpret in ordinary language the following: 

cd 

<{ a + b + c }-— Vd. 

b 

(b) Simplify: 3a— (2a+l)+ ^ a— (3— f=^a) [ . 

97. Find the H. C. F. and L. C. M. of: 

6x^ — 7ax- — 20a-x and 3x--f ax — 4a-. 

98. What is the meaning of a zero exponent? A negative exponent? 
Illustrate. 

99. Find the values of x, y and z: 2x+4y— 3z=22; 4x— 2y-|-5z=:18; 
6x+7y— z=63. 



100. Given: y 14-f V1+ Vx+8'=4, to find the value of x. 

101. a-+22a+112=0. Find the value of a. 

102. x*— 81, x^— 3x=+9x— 27, and x^— 27. Find H. C. D. and L. C. M. 



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103. Simplify: 
1 



a + 1 



a + 1 

104. (4x- — by)'. Use binomial theorem and put all necessary work on 
paper. 

105. V x"+125?+63x^+184x^+315x- +300x+T25. 

106. A freight train starts and one (1) hour and four (4) minutes 
later, an express starts after it at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The 

express overtakes the freight in one (1) hour and thirty-six (36) minutes. 
The freight travels how many miles per hour? 

107. Twelve persons rented an automobile, but three being unable t<» 
pay, each of the others had to pay $2 more than his original share. Find 
the rental. 



108. V 8a«b«— Sea'^b^'+TSaV— 99a='b='+78a-b-— 36ab+8. 

109. Find the value of: x, y, z. 

3x+2y+5z=21. 

2x— 3y+4z=ll 

X— 3y+7z=20. 

110. Use binomial theorem and place all necessary work on paper. 

(2x — 3y)* 

111. Find L. C. M. x — y, x+y, x==-|-xy-f-y and x- — xy+Y'. 

112. At \\ hat time after five o'clock v/ill the hands of a clock be 
(ogether? 

113. Write and define: Surd, monomial, polynomial. 

114. Find the value of x, y, and z : 

4x+2y— z=18 
2x+7y+4z=r87 
8x— 2y+3z=r34. 

115. The perimeter of a lot is 60 yards. If 6 yards were added to 
(lie length but the width not changed, the length would be twice the width. 
Find original dimensions. 

116. ^ i— 6a+21a-^^=?4a*+B3a^^54aH=27a^. 

117. Use binomial theorem and place all necessary work on paper. 
(5x-— ab)* 

118. A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days; A and C can do 
it in 8 days; B and C can do it in 12 days. How long will it take each 
to do it alone? 

119. Extract the cube root of: 8a" b"— 36a-^ b"^-f-78a^ b^— 99a' b^'+78a- b-— 
36ab+8. 

120. The lengths of two ropes are as 4:5 and when 20 feet is cut 
from each rope the remainders are as 3:4. Find the lengths of the ropes. 

121. Factor: 

x=— 35x— 200, and x'— 3xy+4x= y-— 12y3 

122. Simplify: 

x=— 7x-f-6 x=— 14x-f48 x-+6x 



x=^+3x— 4 x2— lOx+24 X'— 8x2 1 

123. Use binomial theorem and put all necessary work on paper: i 

(2aH-3b)*=r? ] 

i 



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/ ^ 1 

124. Vx' + 2x — 1 \ =? 

X X- 

125. Find the L. C. M. of: 

x=+7x+12; x-+6x4-8; x=+5x+6. 

126. Factor three of the following: 

(3) 4a-— 20ax+25x=; (4)3x-— x— 2; 

(3) 4a=— 20ax+25x=; (4) 3x=— x— 2; 

(5) 9x^+3x== y-+4y^ (6) a^ b-— Sab (a— b). 

Give all steps involved. 

127. (1) State the three methods of elimination commonly used in 
solving simultaneous equations, 

(2) Solve by each metliod: j 4x — 3y=39 

[ 3x— 4y=17 

128. Solve: [ x4-4y-f 32=17 

\ 3x+3y+z =16 

[2x+2y+z =11 

129. "WTiat is the "Trial Divisor" in formula for extracting fifth root? 
Also "Complete Divisor?" (Use formula involving "a" and "b") 

130. Find the fourth root (either by extracting fourth root or by com- 
bination of roots) of: 

81x*— 540xy^+1350x-y-— 1500xr'+625y^ 

131. Simplify and combine: 2 VT75— 3 V^+5 V28: 



132. Solve: Vx — Vx— 5=V5. 

133. Define "Simple Equation." 

134. Divide x'-)-y^-|-z* — 3xyz by x--)-y--|-z- — xj' — yz — xz. 

135. Factor: 

(a) s.- — ac — be — b-. 

(b) y^-f2y=— 9y— 18. 

136. Give the methods of elimination in simultaneous equations, 

137. A certain fraction becomes equal to 2/3 if 7 is added to the 
numerator, and equal to 3/8 if 7 is subtracted from the denominator. Find 
the fraction. 

138. The sum of the squares of two consecutive numbers exceeds the 
product of the numbers by 13. Find the numbers. 

139. The difference of two numbers is six, and their product exceeds 
their sum by 39. Find the numbers. 

140. Factor lOx-— 70x^20; also, a'+b' — m-— 1. 

141. Simplify: 

x + y 



X 

1— — 



x + y 



142. -^ 8x«— 36xV+66x*y-— 63x='y*+33x-y^— 9xy^-f-y\ 

143. Solve by two methods: 2x+5y=23. 

5x— y=17. 

144. Find two numbers such that the sum of their reciprocals is 24-143, 
and the difference of their reciprocals is 2-143. 

145. Suppose some of your class do not like the study of algebra, 
what reasons would you give them why they should pursue the study? 

146. Factor: 30x- — 22x=y-— 28y^ also 5ax=+10ax — 75a 

147. Extract the fourth root of: 

16a*— 96a' b+216a= b=— 216ab'+81b^ 



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148. A rectangular field whose sides are to each other as 3 to 5, con- 
tains 6 acres. What are the sides? 

149. A merchant bought a certain number of yards of silk for $72. 
If he had bought six yards more for the same sum it would have cost 
him $1.00 less per yard. How many yards did he buy? 

150. Divide $88 among A, B and C, giving to B 2-3, and to C 3-7 as 
much as to A. 

151. A boy agreed to work one year for $90 and a suit of clothes. 
At the end of 7 months he quit and received $33.75 and the suit. What 
was the price of the suit? 

152. Factor: 4a==+4a— 3; 4x=-f7x— 15; 25x^4-31x=^y-4-64y^ a^— b^ 

153. Find value of x and prove. 

4x— 2 3x— 5 

- + 4 = 5. 

11 13 

154. Simplify and collect: 

a— ^ 2b— [3c— 2a— (a-|-b4-2a)] [ 

155. Find the value of each unknown: 

f 7x— 4y+3z=35 ] 
{ 4x— 5y+2zr=6 } 
[ 2x-f 3y— Zr:=20 J 

156. What is the meaning of any finite quantity having an exponem 
zero. Prove your reply. 

Write following with positive exponents: 
a-b-^'c 2bc 

; 2ab-nc; . 

x-Y* d-n 

157. Express the following with rational denominators: 



Va+3— Va 



Va+3+Va x— Vy 
158. Simplify: 



/x+y 



/ hVx-— y^-'. 

V X— y 

159. Solve for x and prove: 



VI — X Vx — 3 

V5 — X Vx — 1 

160. Find cube root of: 

3 1 

m^— 3m=+5 . 

m^ m' 

161. Factor: 4xy— x=+l— 4y-; 4a*— 13a-+l; x-+x— 132; 3x-— 2x— 5. 

162. Find lowest common multiple of: x- — 2xy+y-; x- — y-; x^+2xy4-y= 

163. Find value of x and prove: 

2x — 3 x + 5 11 



2x — 4 3x — 6 2 

164. Find algebraic sum of: 

X'— 2x+3 X— 2 1 

+ ■ 

x'+l x^— x-fl x+1 



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165. Solve for x and y: 
[ m n ] 



X y 



} 



I r s I 

I X y J 

166. Simplify: \K"54+ vl72—>^ 250—3/4 V'^/y^. 

167. A man has four times as many dollars a.; "he ha:? dime?; Uu» 
value of all is $28.70. How many pieces of each denomination has he? 

168. Find the fourth root of 1— 8a+24a^— 32a'4-16a\ 

169. Solve: 

X — 12 X — 4 7 

. + ^ 2 + . 

X — 7 X — 12 X— 7 

170. Find the value of x in: 

2x + 4 X— 8 x+2 

31/2= \ . 

3 4 3 

171. Find the least common multiple of: 2x^ — 12x--fl9x — 12 and 2x^— 
6x-+7x— 3. 

172. The difference of two numbers is 15 and half their product equals 
the cube of the smaller; what are the numbers? 

173. Find three numbers which shall be to each other as 3, 5 and S 
and the sum of whose squares shall be 392. 

174. Give rules for the use of the signs plus and minus in the four 
fundamental operations. 

175. Define the terms numerical, literal, and identical as applied to 
equations, 

176. x=+xr=30. Find value of x. 

177. The difference of the squares of two consecutive odd numbers is 
40. Find the numbers. 

178. Four times the square of a certain number is equal to seven 
times the number. What is the number? 

179. The side of an equilateral triangle is 12. Find the altitude. 

180. Find the square root of 24x-— 32x+16-f x*— 8x^ 

181. Multiply: 

V12 

— byV75. 

25 
V 2 V27 

—by — . 

3 8 

182. A's age is now twice B's. Seven years ago B was 1/3 as old 
as A. Find the age of each now. 

183. Find the highest common factor of (n- — 3n — 40), (n--f-4n — 5), 
(2n='4-6n— 20). 

184. Factor: 

(a) 8a^— 14ab— 15b- 

(b) 4cnc+d)+12cd(c+d)+9d'(c+d) 

185. Find the square root of: 

x«+12x^+36x^— 14x3— 84x^4-49. 



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186. Find the product of: 

(a-=^b'+aV^b-V') and (a-^b^— aV-b-V^) 

187. A room is 3-2 as long as it is wide, and 60 ft. of picture molding 
are required to go around it. Find the numoer of square feet m the floor 

188. A and B had together a capital of $9,800. A invested 1/6 of his 
capital and B 1/5 of his, whereupon each had the same amount left, now 
much had each before the investment? 

189. Define: Coefficient, power, exponent, radical, factor. 

190. Factor: (a) 81m^— 1; (b) 2x='+x— ]5. 

191. If it requires 200 rods of fence to inclose a rectangular field of 
fifteen acres, what are its dimensions? 

192. A's capital was 3/4 of B's. If A's had been $500 less, it would 
have been but 1/2 of B's. What was the capital of each? 

7x + 8 27x — 36 

194. 8 = • + 4. 

3x — 1 3x — 1 

ir5. A sum of money was divided between A and B so that the 
share of A was to that of B as 5 to 3. The share of A also exceeds 5/9 
Of the whole sum by $50. What was the share of each? 



f 3 

1 + 

|x+3 

■ { 
I 5 


6' 

y— 2 

4 


" 7 j 
17 1 


Solve. 


1 + 

[x+3 


y— 2 


3 1 





197. Given vx+12=24-Vx, to find jc. 

198. Define: Involution, evolution, simultaneous equation, quadratic 
eauation, exponent. 

199- Factor, indicating your method by placing all necessary work 
on your paper: 

x'+x, a'b^+a-b-c-4-c', x*4-4x''y ^6xt- -f4xy•''+y^ x-^y=^+a=-f 2ax-, 
a" — x= — 4ab — 2xy — y--f4b-. 

200. A certain lot is twice as long as it is wide. If its length were 
increased 1 rod and its width decreased 1 roa the area would be decreased 
6 square rods. Find the demensions. 

GENERAL HISTORY 

1. What caused the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain? Hov.- 
.successful was the revolt? > 

2. During the middle ages, how did thy monks advance civilization? 

3. How did the political development of Gern^any in the Middle 
Ages differ from that of France or England? Why? 

4. What great war was v.aged in Europe during our war of 1812? 

5. Give a short sketch of one of the following: Savonarola, Peter 
the Great, Bismark. 

6. What stage has the Home Rule of Ireland now reached? 

7. What wodern countries are included within the limits of the Per- 
sian Empire under Darius? 

8. What European countries now control large parts of North Africa? 

9. Compare the motives which led to Greek colonization with those 
which led to the establishment of colonies in the New World. 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 147 

10. Contrast the private and public life of the Spartans and Athenians. 

11. Summarize three attempts to unify Greece before the Roman 
conquest. 

12. What conditions within the Roman empire made possible the 
barbaric invasions? 

13. Describe the feudal system. 

14. Sketch the relations between Henry VIII of England and the 
church. 

15. WTiat part did Gustavus Adolphus take in the Thirty Years War? 

16. Characterize the reign of Frederick the Great. 

17. Describe the acts of Charles I of England which led to the 
Puritan revolution? 

18. What were the chief obstacles to the unification of Germany? 
How overcome ? 

19. Who was Zwingli? Dante? Peter the Great? Louis Philippe? 
Cavour? 

20. What were the causes of the Peloponnesian war? 

21. What were some of the bonds that tended to hold together the 
Roman empire? 

22. What did Frederick H of Prussia do to deserve the title, "The 
Great?" 

23. What were the causes of the overflow of the French empire 
under Napoleon? 

24. What was the significance of the revolution of 1689 in England? 

25. What changes in the map of Europe were made by the congress 
of Vienna? 

26. What Avas the cause of the Franco-Prussian wars? 

27. Discuss the influence of Pericles in the building up of Athens. 

28. Describe the government of Rome under Augustus Caesar. 

29. For what is Justinian the Great known? 

30. Characterize the society of the ancient Egyptians. 

31. Why was the confederacy of Delos organized? Describe the 
change from this confederacy to an empire. 

32. Who were the so-called "Five Good Emperors" of Rome? 

33. What was the "Holy Roman Empire"? 

34. What mutual benefits were to be derived from the feudal system? 
What is meant by the terms "homage," "vassal"? 

35. What brought about the establishment of the Commonwealth in 
England? 

36. What was the significance of the many revolutions of the nine- 
teenth century? 

37. Sketch briefly the life of one of the following: Augustus, Caesar, 
Napoleon, Cavour. 

38. What were the chief provisions of the English reform bill of 1832" 

39. Give the changes in the kinds of government which France has 
had since the revolution in 1789. 

40. What were the Four Great Schools of Philosophy? 

41. Who was Confucius? Lycurgus? 

42. Give brief history of the Philippics. 

43. Explain the Eleusinian mysteries. 

44. Explain the style of Xenophon and Thucydides. 

45. What were the Laws of the Twelve Tables? 



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46. Give the story of the capture of Rome by the Gauls. 

47. Describe the battle that ended the Roman republic. 

48. What was the character of Rome's government over her provinces? 

49. Who was Rameses II? 

50. What brought about the change fiom the Roman Republic to 
the Roman Empire? 

51. When did the crusades begin, and how long did they last? 

52. What was the cause of the peasant revolt in Germany in the 
early part of the sixteenth century? Give its results. 

53. During v. hose reign did the first breaking away from the 
Catholic church take place in England? 

54. Discuss briefly the rise of Napoleon. 

55. What nations occupied the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates in 
ancient times? 

56. What were probably the real motives of the Greeks in attack- 
ing Troy? 

57. What was the cause of the Spanish- American war? Results? 

ANCIENT HISTORY 

1. Name the Oriental empires in chronological order down to the 
Persians. 

2. In what ways did geographical influence affect Greek history? 

3. Compare the Delian confederacy witii the Peloponnesian league. 

4. Discuss the civilization of the Greeks at the time of Pericles. 

5. Enumerate the causes which contributed to the Roman conquest 
of the Mediterranean. 

6. In changing from a monarchy to a republic, why did Romans 
prefer two consuls to a single executive. 

7. What was the chief reform attempted by Tiberius Gracchus? 

8. Compare the government of Augustus with that of Caesar. 

9. What were the general causes of the Punic wars? 

10. Who was Darius? Hannibal? Cleisthenes? Aristotle? Sulla? 

11. For what were the following places noted: Jerusalem, Thebes, 
Tyre, Nineveh? 

12. Define "Polytheism" and "Monotheism," giving examples of each. 
18. W^hy was the island of Cyprus a natural meeting place of 

Egyptians, Syrians, and Greek peoples? 

14. What resemblances do you discover between the Olympian festi- 
val and one of our great international expositions? 

15. Compare the Athenian jury system with that of England and 
the United States. 

16. Define and illustrate: Augurs, auspices, dictator, plebs, pontiffs. 

17. What events are connected with the following places: Magnesia, 
Cannea, Carthage? 

18. Who was the greater general, Alexander or Hannibal? Sustain 
your position. 

19. Who were Brutus, Catiline, Cleopatra, Cassius, Spartacus, Cato the 
younger? 

20. Compare as civilizing forces the Roman and the Persian empires. 

21. Characterize the society of the ancient Egyptians. 

22. What influence did the Greek love of the city-state have upon 
the creation of a national state? 



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23. Compare the Persians with the Greeks in military equipments 
and in mode of fighting. 

24. Write a brief sketch of the life of Alexander the Great. 

25. What were the defects of the Roman provincial system? 

26. Discuss the character and policy of Sulla. 

27. Describe the religious conditions at Rome under the early empire 

28. Describe the change in Rome from republic to empire. 

29. Who was Pericles? Socrates? Fabius? Pompey? Nero? 

30. Who was the "Egyptian Alexander the Great?" 

31. Who fought and who won the battle of Marathon? The battle 
of Thermopylae? 

32. Give brief history of Herodotus, of Caesar. 

33. Name the principal battles of th^ Persian wars, of tho Punic 
wars. 

34. Describe the Alexandrian Museum and Library. 

35. Who were the Cynics? Describe a Chaldean home. 

36. What kind of stationery did the Egyptians use? The Persians? 

37. Describe an Egyptian funeral. 

38. What were the Magian rites? 

39. Who were the Shepherd Kings of Egypt? 

40. What were the chief cities of the Phoenecians? 

41. WTiat were the causes of the Peloponnesian war? 

42. Give reasons for the failure of Athens, Sparta and Thebes to 
bring about Greek unity. 

43. Why was Europe better fitted than Asia to develop the highest 
civilization? 

MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY 

1. Describe the invasion of one of the barbarian tribes that invaded 
the Roman empire. 

2. What was accomplished by the first crusade? 

3. To what extent did Henry V succeed in his plans against France? 

4. Characterize the Renaissance movement. 

5. What was the Edict of Nantes? 

6. Give the causes of the Thirty Years War. 

7. Give a short sketch of the life of one of the following: Savon- 
arola, Loyola, Peter the Great, Bismark. 

8. What were the causes of the Puritan revolution in England? 

9. What was the Congress of Vienna? Why held? 

10. Discuss briefly the European revolution of 1820. 

11. Give an account of the Mohammedan invasion of Europe and how 
it was encountered. 

12. Discuss briefly the medieval church. 

13. What was the nature of the so-called Catholic reformation? Who 
was its champion? 

14. Characterize France under the rule of Louis XIV. 

15. What was the significance of the revolution of 1688 in England? 

16. Sketch briefly the life and characier of William Pitt, Earl of 
Chatham. 

17. What did Peter the Great accomplish for Russia? 

18. Outline the steps by which Napoleon rose to power. 

19. What was the "Metternich system"? 

20. Describe the formation of modern Italy. 



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21. Sketch briefly the life and charactei of William Pitt. 

22. Name the different World's Fairs. 

23. Describe the Revolutions of 1848 in the different countries of 
Europe. 

24. What was the Babylonish Captivity? 

25. Describe the battle of Crecy. 

26. State the time, the cause, and the results upon Prussia of the 
Seven Years' War. 

27. Describe the Norman Conquest of England. 

28. Give the causes of the French Revolution. 

29. State the principal events in the life of Luther. 

30. Discuss, briefly, the important event that occurred at the Diet 
of Worms. 

31. What was Napoleon's first great victory? His last? 

32. What was our King William's War called in Europe? Give cause 
and result. 

33. Sketch Wellington's career. 

34. Discuss the French Revolution of 1848. 

35. What was the Holy Alliance? 

36. Give a brief account of the life and achievements of Joan of Arc. 

37. Why was the medieval church so important? 

38. What teiritory did Peter the Great annex to Russia? 

39. How long did the republic established in France in 1848 last? 
Give cause of this change. 

40. Who was Charles Martel? Calvin? Bismarck? 

HISTORY OF EDUCATION 

1. Compare Socrates and Aristotle as to educational ideal, method and 
influence. 

2. Contrast Greek and Roman education. 

3. Define the nature and the purpose of the instruction in earlv 
Christian schools. 

4. Give a brief account of the "Naturalistic Idea" of education from 
the 16th to the 18th century. 

5. State your understanding of the "philosophic or rationalistic tend- 
ency" of the 18th and 19th centuries, using Imanuel Kant as an exponent. 

6. What do you understand by the "psychological tendency" in edu- 
cation as presented by Pestalozzi, Herbert and Froebel? 

7. Explain your understanding of the educational idea of today. 

8. What was the equipment of the earliest teachers in the American 
colonies? 

9. What were the educational doctrines advocated by Rousseau? 

10. Name two educators of the renaissance period and tell for what 
each stands. 

11. Give briefly Horace Mann's service to American education. 

12. What did Herbart contribute to education? 

13. What is the general criticism of the Greek idea of education? 

14. Name two German educators who have greatly influenced edu- 
cation; two Frenchmen; two Englishmen. 

15. Give briefly the origin and development of secondary education in 
the United States. 

16. What European nation has exerted the greatest influence, edu- 



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cationally, upon the U, S. 

17. What educator first advocated the kindergarten? Give brief 
account of its introduction into this country. 

18. Describe the two systems of education of Ancient Greece. 

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

1. state how you would proceed to introduce manual training in your 
school and create an interest in it. 

2. How can domestic science best be taught in your school? How 
would you proceed? 

3. Name a number of dishes that could be prepared in the school room 
for hot lunches. 

4. Are school or home gardens for pupils the more practical? Discuss. 

5. Name five useful articles that may be made by normal training 
pupils using a few common tools. 

6. Name five useful things that could be made by your sewing class. 

7. Why should one endeavor to make useful articles first? 

8. Tell how^ to make a hot dish holder or a bird house. 

9. Tell how to correlate manual training with arithmetic, drawing, 
agriculture, language, writing, etc. 

10. What is the effect of industrial work on the general v^'ork of 
the school? How does it affect interest and attendance? 

11. Why is agricultural education of L-pecial interest in Nebraska' 
What is being done to promote agricultural education? Discuss fully. 

12. What is the place of vocational training in school work? 

13. What benefits will vocational training bring to the teacher? 
How will it enable her better to understand the boy? 

14. How would you interest the boy in the building and maintaining 
of good roads? 

15. Discuss how the schools may interest girls in domestic arts. 

16. What is meant by self-activity? How may vocational training 
develop it? 

17. What is the value of motor activity in teaching? Show how it 
may be utilized in teaching arithmetic. 

18. What phase of industrial education may be taught in the primary 
grades? 

19. What suggestions should be made to beginners in writing? Should 
young girls be urged to make fine stitches? State reasons for your answer, 

20. Describe the following: Ripsaw, try-square, vise. 

CHEMISTRY 

1. (a) What is meant by saying that physical and chemical changes 
are related? (b) Give some familiar examples which make these relations 
;^!ear. 

2. Where and in what quantity is oxygen found? 

3. How is a chemical compound expressed by a sj^mbol? Illustrate 
by example. 

4. Describe the method of preparing nitrogen. 

5. What is meant by water of crystallization? What is destructive 
distillation? 

6. What resemblance is there between process for making hydro- 
chloric acid, from common salt and that of making nitric acid from 



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sodium nitrate? What is formed besides hydrochloric acid and nitic acid 
in each case. 

7. Explain why ammonia is formed in gas works. 

8. How are bases named? Explain how :alts are named. 

9. What is the name and formula of the potassium salt; a hydrochloric 
acid; perchloric acid; chloric acid? 

10. A piece of sodium is placed on water. Give effects. Tell of potas- 
sium on water. What is formed in each case. 

11. What is the common name for nitrous oxide, and how is it used? 

12. How would you test water for (a) organic impurities, (b) chlorides, 
(c) sulphates? 

13. Complete the following reactions: 

NHiNOj plus heat = 
SO3 plus H,0 = 
HNO3 -f NH3 = 
2HN03+PBO= 
H,SO, + 2K0K — 

14. How is mortar made? What reaction is involved? 

15. Give symbols for (a) oxalic acid; (b) sal ammoniac; (c) washing 
soda; (d) acetic acid. 

16. Of what is gunpov>'der composed? What causes the explosion? 

17. Is air a mixture or a compound? State reasons for your answer. 

18. What is the source of ammonia, carbon dioxide, and oxygen in 
the air? 

19. Define: Electrolysis, synthesis, and reaction. 

20. (a) Name two experiments in which hydrochloric acid is used, (b) 
ITow is a salt formed? Name three. 

21. How is ammonia prepared in the laboratory? How is it prepared 
commercially? Discuss the properties. 

22. Discuss one of the following topics: The periodic law, the elec- 
h-omotive series of the metals. 

23. Give tv,o ways of preparing sulphur dioxide. What are its 

24. Given a solution of ferric nitrate, copper nitrate, and mercuric 
properties? 

nitrate how would you separate and identify the metals. 

25. To what is the hardness of water due? How can this be dimin- 
ished? 

26. What is the law of multiple proportion? Of definite proportion? 
Give examples. 

27. What are the common forms of carbon and what percentage are 
they? 

28.. Distinguish between a metal and a non-metal, giving at least 
three examples of each. Give examples of elements that have the proper- 
ties of both classes. What are these classes? 

29. Complete the following reactions: 

NaNO, -f H,FO,= 
and then by raising the temperature 
NaNO, + NaHSO, = 
H2O + Clj^r 

CaH2(C03)a + CAOr=: 

30. Discuss the valency of silicon and carbon. 

31. Give two ways of preparing O in laboratory. 



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32. How does qualitative analysis differ from quantative analysis? 
Which is most difficult? Which most useful? 

33. What is atomic weight? 

34. WTiat are the prorerties and uses of liquid air? 

35. What is valence? Is it constant for a given element? 

36. How is sulphur obtained? What are its properties? 

37. Give the name, color, state, and one property of each of the 
following: F, CI, Br, I. 

38. Name five forms of carbon, giving condition of each. 

39. How are atomic weights determined? 

40. How is glass made? 

41. Give ten symbols of elements and their names. 

42. What mixture of H and O is most explosive? Why? What is 
produced? 

43. What is the atomic hypothesis? 

44. What are the constituents of air? Their approximate proportions? 

45. ViTiat are basic, acid, and normal salts? With what bases may 
ihey occur? 

46. What is an acid anhydride? Name one, 

47. Discuss the properties and uses of carbon disulphide. 

48. Discuss bleaching, the reagents used, and the reaction. 

49. Why does charcoal burn with no flame? A candle with one? 
When charcoal has a blue flame, what is it? 

50. Discuss the occurrence of silicon. What is its most common 
compound ? 

ENGLISH LITERATURE 

1. In dramatic work what is the differnce between comedy and trag- 
edy? Give from Shakespeare an example of each. 

2. Explain the following words as they are used in literature: Style, 
drama, terse, diffuse. 

3. How -'-'"ould you lead children to appreciate good literature? 

4. What would you expect ninth and tenth grade pupils to get from 
7'eading Shakespeare's works ? 

.^. What lesson would pupils get from a study of "The Merchant of 
^'enlce." 

6. Give a quotation from a poem by Alice or Phoebe Carey or give 
The thought in one of the poems. 

7. Have you read any of the writings of Kuskin? If so, give an idea 
of the nature of the production. 

8. Give some of the circumstances connected with Lincoln's Gettysburg 
address. 

9. What was the place and influence of Dr. Samuel Johnson in 
English literature? 

10. Discuss the origin and early development of the English drama. 

11. Whom do you consider the greatest romantic novelist? Why? 
Make a list of his works. 

12. Tell briefly the story of Lamb's life and name his principal works. 

13. Characterize the writings of Thomas Carlyle. 

14. In Memoriam: (a) Author, (b) theme, (c) history, (d) classifi- 
cation, (e) characterization. 

15. Name three writers of the classic ag'^ in English literature and 
two great works of each. 



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16. Characterize Lady Macbeth. 

17. Compare very briefly the style of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot. 

18. Explain the following^ and tell upon what occasion and by whom 
it w^as spoken: "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a 
heart so white. I hear a knocking- at the south entry; retire we to our 
chamber. A little water clears us of this deed; how easy is it then." 

19. (a) Define literature, (b) Give an illustration of good literature, 
(c) State why the selection you mention is good literature. 

20. Give a short account of Shakespeare's Macbeth, or the Comedy of 
Errors, or the Merchant of Venice. 

21. Make a short comparison of the works of Dickens with those of 
Thackeray. 

22. What are the characteristics of a good essay? Give an illustration. 

23. (a) Name two books you have read within a year, (b) As litera- 
ture, are they good or poor, and (c) if good in what respect, and if poor 
in what respect? 

24. Give tv/o reasons for considering Shakespeare the greatest writer 
of English literature. 

25. How does the literature of any period reflect the history of that 
reriod? Give an example. 

26. (a) Name three American poets and name a poem by each; and 
tb) name two American prose writers and give a production of each. 

27. Give two reasons for teaching English literature to children and 
to high school students. Give two examples adapted to children in the 
jrrades and two adapted to high school students. 

28. (a) If a teacher were to read good literature to a group of pupils 
ten minutes each day for two years what would be some of the results? 
(b) Write a paragraph (not more than twenty lines) on methods of teach- 
ing literature. 

29. Characterize Old English poetry in regard to form and subject 
mattei*. 

30. What historic event greatly influenced middle English language 
and literature ? 

31. Name four of Milton's best known works. 

32. Discuss briefly Spencer's "Fairy Queen" in regard to when written, 
form of writing and style of the writer. 

33. Characterize the writings of one of the following: Pope, Dryden, 
Goldsmith. 

34. Why has "Pilgrim's Progress" always been so popular? 
3.S. What is the story of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"? 

36. Characterize Irving's prose style. 

37. Name five nineteenth century poets and a poem written by each. 

38. Give the author of each of the following: "Treasure Island," "The 
Princess," "Vision of Sir Launfal," "Poor Richard's Almanac," "The 
Raven." 

39. Define narrative poetry and give an example. Define lyric poetry 
and give an example. 

40. Write a short paragraph on each of three of the foDowing: 

(a) Coffee House of the Queen Anne Period. 

(b) Spectator Papers. 

(c) Lake Poets. 

(d) Milton's Minor Poems. 



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(e) Canterbury Tales. 

41. Name two of Shakespeare's plays. Classify as to kind of drama. 
Name three essential actors in each. Name climax and catastrophe in each. 

42. (a) To what period did each of the following belong: Pope, 
Browning, Goldsmith, Tennyson? (b) Characterize the writings of each. 

43. Give a brief account of Addison's writings and their influence 
upon English literature. 

44. Give three "appeals" of character from the i oem "Elaine." Discuss 
the character of Lancelot as presented in this poem. 

45. How does the literature of the Anglo-Saxon age reflect the life of 
the people? 

46. Define the terms tragedy and comedy. Give examples of each. 

47. Why did the ballad, more than any other form of literature, 
appeal to the common people? Name three ballads that you consider 
popular. 

48. What political and social conditions in the 18th Century gave rise 
to the romantic tendencies in literature? 

49. What was the nature of Old English prose? 

50. Characterize the poetry of Chaucer. 

51. Discuss the origin and development of the drama. 

52. Why does Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" interest older people a>^ 
W' ell as children ? 

53. Tell the story of one of the following Shakespearean dramas: 
Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Mid-summer Night's Dream, Mer- 
chant of Venice. 

54. Who wrote "The Sir Roger de Coverly Papers"? "The Spec- 
tator"? Characterize the style. 

55. Compare the poetry of Browning and Tennyson. Which is better 
suited for high school students? 

56. Name five prose writers of the nineteenth century. 

57. What are the chief qualities in the prose style of Benjamin 
Franklin ? 

58. Who wrote each of the following: "Sesane and Lilies"; "Morte 
d'Arthur"; "Prisoner of Chilon"; "Sohrab and Rustum"; "David Copper- 
field." 

ZOOLOGY 

1. Tell what you can of the blood and its circulation in each of 
the following named animals: Earthworm, crayfish, snake. 

2. Define: Barnacle, rhizopoda. 

3. What do you understand by evolution as commonly taught and 
believed by scientists? 

4. Describe a sponge. 

5. What is the difference between a protozoon and batrachian? 

6. Explain Darwin's theory of evolution. 

7. Classify the following: Honey-bee, spider, canary, house-fly. 

8. Compare the amoeba with the hydra. 

9. Name the special means of defense of five lower animals. 

10. Give history of development in the life of a toad. 

11. Name five differences between living and lifeless matter. 

12. Define cell. Draw a paramoecium, showing the parts. 

13. What is the centrosome? Its function? 

14. What is the relation between function and morphological differ- 



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cntiation ? 

15. What is the function of the yolk in the egg? 

16. Classify: Frog, fly, wolf, deer, trout. 

17. Where does the spider get its web? How is it made? 

18. Discuss the frog as to development, morphology, and habits. 

19. Give five points in which the skeleton of a bird differs from 
that of a man. 

20. What is the Mendelian theory? 

21. Give the general characteristics of coelenterates. Name an 
example. 

22. Explain the nervous system of worms. Compare with lower 
animals, 

23. Contrast Mollusks and Protozoas. List characteristics in separate 
columns. 

24. Discuss the habits of spiders. To what branch do they belong? 

25. Describe the external features of a star fish. Where are they 
found? 

26. Characterize the carnivora. Name four examples of the carnivora. 

27. What are the chief differences between fishes and amphibians? 
Which arc higher? Why? 

28. Explain by three examples, the adaptations of animals for se- 
curing food; give three exan:ples of adaptations for self defense. 

29. Give two causes of degeneration. Illustiate. 

30. Name four differences between plants and animals. Underline 
the most distinctive. 

31. What is protoplasm? What are its constituents? 

32. Define mitosis (or karyokinesis). Name three of its stages. 

33. What is the difference between a many-celled protozoan and a 
metazoan? 

34. What is the gastrula? Morella? Blastula? Arrange in order 
of formation? 

35. What is the object of classification? 

36. Discuss the fish as to habitat, morphology, reproduction. 

37. Discuss the salamander. 

38. Classify birds, giving as many orders as you can. (There are 
eleven.) 

39. What is a marsupial? Name two. 

40. Name two subdivisions of the Arthropoda. 

41. Name some insects that belong to order Hemiptera. 

42. Give the general characteristics of vertebrates. 

43. What are the habits of the herring and shad? 

44. Briefly discuss the lowest form of animal life. 

45. Name six kinds of birds, three of which are migratory. Give 
habits of the pigeon. 

46. Characterize the mammalia. Name five animals belonging to the 
mammalia. 

47. Describe three animals that belong to the Rodentia. 

48. Give the characteristics of the ungulata. Name three animals 
belonging to the ungulata. 

49. Discuss the geographical distribution of animals. 

50. What insect assists in spreading typhoid? Discuss the control 
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51. Take a stand for or against evolution, and give five reasons for 
your belief. 

52. Define metalDolisni, its two siibdi\asions, and give two example^ 
(Of each of the latter. 

53. Discuss the amoeha, giving five faints concerning it. 

54. Give five t\T)es of asexual reproduction, discussing- one, 

55. Name four tissues. Describe one. 

56. Name five Orthoptera. Describe ona 

57. Discuss the hydra. 

58. Discuss the lizards. 

59. Namf> two mollusk. Describe one, 

TRIGONOMETRY 

1. Define: Trigonometry, radian, logarithm, mantissa. 

2. Give the characteristic of the logarithm of the following nmnher.-^: 
2701, 356, 780, 45085, .0005. 

3. Give the number which corresponds to the following logarithm: 
-2., 3., 5. 

4. Give formula for the law of sines, law ot cosines, law of tangents, 

5. Show by diagram how you can find the distance hetween two 
inaccessible points (X) and (Y) from two station points <A) and (B). 

6. Prove the formula: 

tan X -|- tan y 

tan (x-)-y) = 

I — tan X tan y 

7. Find the area of a triangle whose sides are 10, 8 and 6 respec- 
tively. 

8. Find cos 3x in terms of cos x. 

9. Given c the base of an isosceles triangle and h its altitude, find 
A, C, and a. 

10. Draw circle and represent the trigonometric line functions in the 
second quadrant. 

11. Define natural function, logarithm, radian, angle of depression. 

12. State what data must be given in order to find the unknown 
parts of a given triangle. 

13. A surveyor washes to find the distance between two stations 
A and B on the opposite side of an impassible bog. Show by diagram 
what measurements and observations he would make to compute the 
distance. 

14. Two railroad tracks are joined by a circular track having a 400 
ft. radius. If the circular track is '418.88 ft. in length find the central 
angle subtended by the track. 

15. Prove sin (x-fy)=sin x cos y+cos x sin y. 

16. Express the following functions in angles less than 45 degrees: 

sin 65 
cos 195 
tan 260 
cot 365 

17. Find the logarithm of tan 29 deg. 5 min. 10 sec. if 

log tan 29° 5'=r9.74524 
log tan 29° 6'=9.74554 



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18. Find the antilogarithm of 4.95473 if 

log 901=2.95472 
log 9011r=3.95477 

19. Find the value of: 



sin 3x, when sin 2xr=Vl — ni^ 

20. How do you multiply by means of logarithms? Divide? Find 
given powers? Get given roots? 

21. How would you get the fifth root of .043707 by logarithms, if 
the mantissa for 43707 is .64055? 

22. Discuss in not less than five lines the practical value of trigo- 
nometry; then write as much more as to its cultural value. 

23. Write five simple trigonometrical formulae. Prove one. 

24. Solve for x: Tan x — 1=2 sin x — 2 cos x. 

25. If the vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 120°, and one leg 
is 40 inches, find the base and altitude. 

26. Draw a unit circle and its axes, name the quadrants, and 
represent all the functions of an angle of 30° by lines therein, naming 
them. 

27. Solve: 2V3 tan x = 3 sec= x — 6. 

28. State and prove the law of sines. 

29. Given two sides of a triangle as 25 and 50, and the included 
angle 60°, find the area. 

30. Draw a right triangle and express the functions of one of the 
acute angles in terms of the sides of the triangle. 

31. Prove that: 



/I — sir. A 

/ ■ • = sec A — tan A 

V 1+sin A 

32. Express the Cos 212° 45' in an acute angle of less than 45 
degrees. 

33. Give the formulae for the Law of Sines, Law of Cosines and 
Law of Tangents. 

34. Prove that Cos=A=Cos==A — Sin-A. 

35. Find the area of a triangle ABC when b=12 ft., c=:14 ft. and 
A=:30 deg. 

36. Give the limiting values for the sine, cosine, tangent and cotang- 
ent in quadrants I, II, III, and IV. 

37. Draw a figure and name the lines representing the six trigo- 
nometric functions. 

38. Log 234=2.36922; Log 235=2.37107. Find the Log 234.8. 

39. Draw figures and set up formula to solve the following problem: 
Two pulleys whose radii are 18 inches and 30 inches respectively are 8 
feet apart from center to center. Find the length of a belt connecting 
the pulleys when the pulleys turn in the same direction. 

40. How is the characteristic of a logarithm on the base of 10 
determined? 

41. What is the logarithm of unity in any system? Of the base? 

42. Tan 38° 40' is approximately 4/5. Find the other functions. 

43. If X equals 30°, show that cos 3x:e:4cos^x — 3cos x. 

44. What are the four quadrants? Locate them. What is the initial 
.'Ine of an angle? The terminal line? 

45. Simplify: 5 sin (90°+x)— 6cos(180°-|-x). 



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46. Find the numeral value of cos 105°. 

47. Prove : 

2 sin A — sin 2A 1 — cos A 



2 sin A -\- sin 2A 1 + cos A 

48. Given A, B, and b of an oblique triangle, how would you solve 
for C, a and c? 

49. How would you find tiie exact distance to an inaccessible object? 

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 

1. How is atmospberic pressure measured? Discuss its variations as 
one goes upward from sea level. 

2. Why is the temperature so much lower at high elevations than at 
sea level. 

3. What is meant by the "belt of calms"? By the "prevailing wester- 
lies"? Explain the cause for each. 

4. Discuss the causes for the difference in the climate and rainfall 
of France and Russian Turkestan. 

5. Discuss the size, age, rate of motion, and origin of the Alankan 
glaciers. What is a crevasse and how is it formed? 

6. What is meant by faulting of strata? How is it caused? WhRi 
caused the * dip" of some rock strata? 

7. What effect will a very resistant stratum rock have u on the 
relief of an old, deeply eroded plain or plateau? 

8. Describe and give reasons for the difference in the relief slope 
and soil of a divide or water shed and the flood plain or river. 

9. Give fully the causes of the different desert areas in the western 
United States. 

10. Give two practical uses that may be made of the knowledge 
gained in physical geography. 

11. Discuss the cause of winds, 

12. Define ocean currents; ocean diift. Name two warm currents; one 
cold current. 

13. Discuss coastal plain as to contour, origin and effect on inhabi- 
tants. 

14. Give the life history of a mountain. 

15. What are embayed mountains? How caused? Give examples. 

16. When would you expect to' find falls in a river? A\Tiy? What 
is a fall-line? Illustrate. 

17. Discuss the effect of wind on land forms. 

18. Give five changes that are now taking place in the general 
contour of the land. 

19. Explain the cause of sink-holes; caverns. 

20. Describe how a river valley is formed. 

21. What is a delta? Where formed? What are the conditions 
necessary to its formation? 

22. What signs would you look for to determine whether an area 
had formerly been covered by the great ice sheet? 

23. What effect have large bodies of water on climate? Why? 

24. What is a caldera? How formed? 

25. Where are the principal earthquake regions in the Americas? 

26. Give three reasons why land heats faster than water. 



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27. What are isobars? Illustrate an area of low presjiiu'e by drawing: 
isobars. 

28. What are the advantages of relief maps? 

20. Explain the artesian well; the intermittent spring. 

30. Give four ways in which valleys are widened. 

31. What is a meander? When does it occur? What may finally 
result? 

32. Name and define the different kinds of moraines, 

33. Give five ways in which lakes may be formed. 

34. What are some of the phenomena of a volcanic eruption? 

35. What was the cause of the San Francisco earthquake? 

36'. Name four ingredients of the atmosphere and give the function of 



<^ach. 



Name and define three kinds of clouds. 



GEOLOGY 

1. Distinguish between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. 

2. Account for the pebbles and boulders which are found in Nebraska. 

3. Illustrate the following by diagram: Fault, anticline, syncline. 

4. In general, what is the difference between northern soils and. 
southern soils, and what relation do glaciers bear to them? 

5. Name three constructive forces. Give local examples. 

6. Why are salt lakes characteristic of arid climates? Mention the 
most abundant chemical deposits in salt lakes. 

7. Give examples of weathering from personal observation. 

8. Distinguish between a mineral and a rock. 

9. What sciences are especially useful in geology? 

.10. What are the main benefits to be derived from the study of 
Geology? 

11. What are glaciers? How are rocks affected by them? 

12. Account for the Sioux quartzite, granite, and other boulders; 
V hich are found in the eastern part of Nebraska. 

13. Discuss weathering of building stones, especially as to texture, 

14. Give examples of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. 
How are each formed? 

15. Discuss the destructive and reconstructive processes of seas^ 
lakes and rivers. 

16. Name ten rock-forming minerals. 

17. Discuss calcareous minerals. Give examples. 

18. Give the principal uses of the following: Muscovite, kaolinite, 
steatite, talc, haematite, quartz, azurite, and halite. 

19. Show by diagram faults. Joints. 

20. Which geological period contains the most important share of 
the world's supply of mineral fuel? 

PSYCHOLOGY 

1. Define psychology, and discuss briefly its relation to education. 

2. Define memory. Of what elements is it composed? State the 
laws of memory. 

3. State two functions of brain cells and tell what is accomplished 
by each. 

4. Discuss briefly the nature of will and its cultivation. 

5. Name three physical conditions that are conducive to the securing 



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and direction of attention. 

6. Name the elements or factors that enter into formation of a per- 
ception. 

7. State tlie range of duration of attention in the average child. 

8. Explain the statement, "Attention is a fundamental process." 

9. Give example of reproductive imagination and constructive imagi- 
nation. 

10. "VVTiat is meant by the association of ideas and what is its sig- 
nificance for education? 

11. Discuss attention as affecting the time-rate of the mental pro- 
cesses. 

12. What are the chief advantages of habit? 

13. Define illusions of sense. Give two examples. 

14. Explain the statement, "The successful teacher is the sense 
teacher." 

15. Name the four general divisions of the brain. 

16. What are the advantages of the introspective method in psy- 
chology ? 

17. Does the mind become fatigued? How does physical fatigue 
affect the mind? 

18. What is constructive imagination and what is its significance 
to the teacher? 

19. Discuss briefly the function of the nervous system. 

20. Discuss the conditions and detriments of attention, and the 
effects of education upon attention. 

21. Give an illustration from your observation of the principle that 
"ideas are colored by association." 

22. What is the difference between inductive and deductive reason- 
ing? 

23. What is the psychological value of illustration in teaching? 

24. Explain why an adult's interests are more artificial than a child's. 

25. What is Herbart's doctrine of interest? 

26. Show how the association of new and old ideas may be used 
profitably in teaching. 

27. Illustrate the effect of feeling on judgment from your school- 
room observation. 

28. Draw a rough sketch of the brain and name the principal parts. 

29. Explain in detail the difference in structure between "gray" and 
"white" matter. 

30. Instincts are sometimes called "hereditary habits." Explain. 

31. Name several factors which affect attention. 

32. (a) What is the primary function of sensation? (b) What is 
meant by "the sensory-motor circuit"? 

33. (a) Upon what is imagination principally dependent? (b) Why 
does a new-born babe have no imagination? 

34. How is memory dependent upon sensation? 

35. (a) What is meant by the "feelings"? (b) Are they intellectual 
or physical? Explain. 

36. Distinguish between a reflex act, an instinctive act, and a voli- 
tional act. Give an example of each. 

37. How does a person's physical condition affect his emotions? 

38. Nam« three classes of sensations. 



162 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

39. Classify emotions and give examples of each. 

40. What is the distinction between concepts and judgments? 

41. What is fear? Describe the influence of fear upon the physical 
person. 

42. What are illusions? Give examples. What are dreams? Discuss, 
the foundation or dream materials. 

43. What is the will, and how may it be trained? 

44. What is meant by association of ideas? Name and illustrate 
two kinds of association. 

45. What is the physiological explanation of habit? What is imagi- 
nation? What use can a student make of it? 

46. How does character depend on habit? 

47. How does time affect the memory image? 

48. Distinguish between memory and imagination. 

49. What is a concept? 

50. How is mental ability dependent on physical condition? 

RHETORIC 

1. Define rhetoric. 

2. What advantages does one derive from the study of rhetoric? 

3. * When is a sentence said to be rhetorical? 

4. What is the object in using such words as thus, so, also, hence, 
moreover? 

5. Explain the U£"e of unity, emphasis and coherence in rhetoric. 

6. Define argument, narration and amplification. 

7. What is meant by the key word of a sentence? 

8. Give the key word in each of the following: 
He proved himself, in every way, trustworthy. 

The automobile will not entirely displace the horse. 

A barn differs from the usual farm house in several respects. 

9. Write a short paragraph— about ten lines — on "The Value of 
Physical Exercise." 

10. In what two ways may discourse lack precision? 

11. Explain the difference in meaning between the following two 
sentences: (a) "He has sufficient money." (b) "He has enough money." 

12. What quality of dictation is violated, and correct all errors in 
your recast of these sentences: 

(a) The protest laid quietly on the table. 

(b) Then, methought, the air grew denser. 

(c) He dispenses favors on every side. 

(d) My hat stays where I put it. 

(e) John lost his avocation by idleness. 

13. Considered from a rhetorical standpoint what three qualities 
should a sentence possess? Define qualities named or give sentences 
illustrating them. 

14. Name two faults opposed to clearness. Give two rules for se- 
curing clearness. 

15. What is unity as applied to the sentence? How is unity of the 
sentence preserved? Illustrate by improving the following: "Wait" 
.-aid the tailor, "I must go out and buy a piece of cloth; when I return, 
you will hear what I expect to do; at least you are willing to stay." 

16. Point out the synecdoches in the following sentences; recast the 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 163 

sentences, using plain language instead of figurative: 

(a) Our hero was gray. 

(b) The boy left his father's hearth. 

(c) He bought fifty head of cattle. 

17. What is an essay? A novel? A poem? 

18. Distinguish between a metaphor and a simile, giving examples of 
each. 

19. What is the purpose of the theme outline? What are the essen- 
tials of a good outline? 

20. What is meant by emphasis? What are the chief hindrances 
to emphasis? 

21. What is meant by climax? Anti-climax? 

22. What are the characteristics of a good business letter? Write 
a business letter on some point requiring a detailed explanation. 

23. Write a story relating some personal experience, striving espec- 
ially for vividness of narration (not more than 300 words). 

24. Give the rhetorical value or values of the following: Metaphor, 
personification, allegory, exclamation, climax. 

25. Classify rhetorical imagery under the three following heads: 
Resemblance, contiguity and contrast. 

26. Name the figures employed in each of the following sentences: 

(a) The soul is the only bird which sustains its cage. 

(b) Happiness is an old sash painted on one side. 

(c) Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day. 

(d) Earth felt the wound. 

(e) Up came the reserve of foot and horse. 

(f) The very stones of Rome will rise in mutiny. 

27. What special suggestions does a young writer need for exposition? 
Name at least three and explain the purpose of each suggestion. 

28. Write a short story from the following outline: (Narration.) 
Two years' experience with a grammar room. 

1. Introduction 

2. My first day with the students 

3. The class 

(a) Original members 

(b) Changes 

4. The pupils 

(a) Personal appearance 

(b) Characters 

(c) Home surroundings 

5. The work 

(a) Difficulties 

(b) Willingness of students to learn 

(c) New perplexities 

(d) One benefit 

6. Memories 

(a) The winter term 

(b) Good will of pupils 

(c) Christmas vacation 

7. Pupils at present and a thought for the future. 

29. Distinguish between argumentation and exhortation; exposition 
and persuasion. 



164 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

30. Select from the following list the elements: Precision, purity, 
clearness, euphony, propriety, force, unity. 

Ca) That cuts oat the block of language. 

Cb) That decides its shape. 

(c) That makes it a thing of beauty for all ages. 

CHILD STUDY 

1, Classify the games and ax^^useiaeiitti which appeal to children at 
different ages. 

2. Distinguish between emotions and sensations. Explain how the 
sight Oi an orange arouses each in a child. 

3. To what extent should a teacher study the children under her care*^ 
For what purpose? 

4. Is argument or distraction commonly the better cure for an unde- 
sirable emotional condition in a young child? Why? 

5. What physical training would you give to cure and prevent the 
emotions oi nervousness and worry? 

6. Give one or two illustrations of mistakes made in teaching by put- 
ting together a fact and a feeling which ought to be kept apart. 

7'. Name three games which give good opportunities for training in 
co-operation. Three which give little or none. 

8. What studies are best suited for a child under eight years of age? 
Give reasons for your answer. Should logical reason be developed in the 
child under this age? State reason for your answer. 

9. What is the effect of poor food on the child's mentality? 

10. What is the order in which the special senses are developed in 
the embryo and young child? 

11. Discuss the importance of child study for the teacher in the grades. 

12. What are the arguments against a strong emphasis on arithmetic 
in lower grades ? 

13. Protracted infancy in man furnishes an adequate preparation time 
for his complex life. Explain this statement. 

14. Name three good stories suitable for the child of six years; three 
for the child of twelve years. 

15. How would you deal with a retarded oi- backward child? 

16. Distinguish between fundamental and accessory muscles. 

17. Give three arguments against the use of the instinct of rivalry 
in school work. 

18. How would you develop a child's power of observation? 

19. What is the relation between the child's attention and his 
interest? 

20. Give arguments in favor of fairy stories for children. 

21. Many children exaggerate. Is it a fault? If so, how would you 
deal with it? 

22. Write briefly on the psychology of the myth. Does it have a 
tendency to make the child skeptical? 

23. Why is play necessary for the child? 

24. State the order in which the mental activities develop in the 
child. 

25. What is imagination? What is its value? How would you culti- 
vate it? 

26. The school readers of a generation ago contained many selections 



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with morals. Are modern readers "based almosi entirely on library selec- 
tions preferable? Substantiate your ansv.er, 

27. Discuss the relatitjn of tlie physical senses to mental activity anc 
'development. 

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT 

1. How may yon measure the results of > cur work as a teacher? 

2. Discuss tlie advantages and disadvantages of annual promotions. 

3. TVTiat number of pupils would you consider an ideal group for 
teaching? 

4. WTiat, in your judgment, are ^i^e minimum and maximum numbers 
for good teaching? 

5. A teacher boasted that her pupils had read twelve supplementary 
readers in one year. Would you consider it better to read twelve readers 
hurriedly than to read two or three well? Substantiate your answer. 

6. Under whose control are pupils on the v>ay to and from school? 

7. "V\Tiat is meant by the classification of schools into elementary, 
secondary and higher? 

8. Discuss the ad\'antages and disadvantages of segregating th( 
brighter pupils. 

9. How can the co-operation of teacher and parent increase thi- 
ef ficiency of the school? 

10. Discuss the advisability of installing instrumental music as r 
part of the regular free instruction of the school. 

11. WTiat remedy for truancy would you suggest? 

12. Of what should the work for the first day of school consist? 

13. ^Tiat order would you demand of pupils in passing to and fron; 
classrooms? 

14. Justify the position of the school as the social center for thf 
community. 

15. How is ventilation related to order in the schoolroom? 

16. Give methods of securing good order on the palyground. 

17. What subjects should be studied and recited in the morning? 

18. What use would you make of fifteen minutes allowed for genera 
exercises at the beginning of the day's work? 

19. How would you regulate the matter of communication between 
pupils during school hours? 

20. How do you account for the fact that there are fewer boys thar 
girls in high school? 

21. How would you deal with the tendency of children to forn 
cliques? 

22. State advantages and disadvantages of an "Honor System." 

23. What would you do to suppress chewing; gum in school? 

24. How would you deal with a school thie^" whose guilt was proven' 

25. Give your way of meeting the writing on the walls of out- 
buildings. 

26. Under what conditions would you use corporal punishment? 

27. Is any form or part of military dicipline advisable in school? 
Give reasons. 

28. Give three arguments against aboli.sihing recess in the higher 
grades. 

29. What should be The relation of th" county superintendent to 
his teachers ? 



166 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

30. To what extent would you allow children to read in school, books, 
not related to their lessons? 

31. What are the most common expressions of the unruly spirit in 
school? 

32. Among the "spoiled" children of your acquaintance, what factors 
operating in homes of the children seem to have been primarily respons- 
ible for "spoiling" them? 

33. Give a definition of "tact". 

34. What is meant by the "objective attitude" in school management? 
Contrast it by example with the "subjective attitude." 

35. Give methods of securing proper decorum on the playground. 

36. How would you regulate the matter of communication between 
pupils during school hours? 

37. What occasions would justify an appeal to the school board in 
cases of discipline? 

38. How can the teacher best avoid questions from other classes 
when one class is reciting? 

39. Under what circumstances would you consider expulsion of a 
pupil justifiable ? 

40. Should definitions and principles be illustrated by the pupils? 
Give reason for your answer. 

41. How would you hope to develop the social instinct in the pupils 
you teach? 

42. What reasons can you give for the demand that teachers secure 
the interest of their pupils in school work? 

43. Why is it that any new subject will i rove attractive for a short 
time, and children will later show a lack of interest in the work? 

44. What is wrong with a boy who is quiet during the recitation, 
apparently absorbed in the work, but who gets nothing out of it? 

45. What sort of reasoning is demanded of a class in parsing? 

46. How would you hope to discover whether or not children 
enjoyed a new picture? 

47. How often should reviews be conducted? 

48. How would you plan to supplement the text books which you use? 
Give examples. 

49. What could a teacher do to help a near-sighted boy or girl? 

50. Distinguish between class management as a means and as an 
end. Give examples. 

51. How much liberty should the primary children be allowed in 
moving about the room during school? 

52. How may intermissions be best managed during very severe 
weather? 

53. What is the school-social-center idea? 

54. Describe some phase of the monitor system that may be used 
effectively. 

55. Suppose you know that a "bad boy" is inciting rebellion among 
his fellows on the school grounds, how will you proceed? 

56. What principles should the teacher follow in arranging the 
pupils' seats with respect to association with each other? 

57. Hov/ may the teacher train student assistants? What are the 
dangers ? 

58. Under what circumstances do you consider suspension justifiable? 



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59. Do you believe in a roll of honor? Give reason for your answer. 
60- Discuss the control of snow-baJling. 

SCHOOL HYGIENE 

1. Give standards for lighting a school room. 

2. State briefly directions for ventilating a school room by means of 
windows. 

3. Give briefly your directions for keeping a school room sanitary, 
covering cleaning and disinfecting the building. 

4. What simple test can a teacher make in order to detect defective 
sight and hearing? 

5. Discuss briefly the qualifications and duties of a school janitor. 

6. Do you consider medical inspection in schools practicable and 
useful? 

7. What means has a teacher for producing a complete change of 
air in the school room? 

8. Name some of the things you would teach relative to first aid 
to the injured. 

9. What are some of the common unsanitary conditions and sources 
of disease and what may be done to correct them? 

10. Name the physical defects which retard the progress of pupils 
in school, and tell how they may be detected in each case. 

11. What is fatigue? Name some physica,l conditions which indicate 
fatigue. 

12. Explain how pupils may be rested by o change of work. 

13. How do indoor life and study sometimes prevent sound develop- 
ment of children, 

14. Name some of the best disinfectant-5. 

15. Discuss cleaning and dusting of the school room and its furniture. 

16. Explain as you would to a class in school, the use of two disin- 
fectants in the home. 

17. What is the object of medical inspection? How often should 
one be made? 

18. Discuss location and number of windows, also manner of shading, 
as related to the care of the child's eyes. 

19. What is the value of the individual drinking cup? 

20. Name four symptoms for which a teacher should watch closely 
as indicative of contagious disease. 

21. What are some prolific causes of spinal curvature? 

22. What are some of the evil results of the cigarette habit? 

23. What rules for eating would you teach? 

24. Discuss 'deep-breathing" in its relation to health. 

25. What are the symptoms of adenoids? 

26. What care should be taken of the floor to prevent the spread 
of disease? 

27. What general topics are included in the study of school hygiene? 

28. Discuss the main points in the proper lighting of a school room. 

29. Name some defects of the eye. What remedy would you suggest 
for each ? 

30. How is attention dependent upon good ventilation? 

31. In what ways can the teacher bring about better sanitary con- 
ditions in the community? 



Igg THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

32. Name three contagious diseases conunon among children. Give 
the symptoms of each. 

S3. What bad results may come from improper seating of children? 

34. Give at least tv\o arguments in favor of medical inspection in 
rhe schools. 

35. What is the importance of good home conditions in relation to 
school work? 

36. In what way does the condition of the body affect the mind? 

PRIMARY METHODS 

1. Discuss briefly the value of games for school children. Name 
four games suitable for primary school. 

2. Give a brief account of some aporcved method of teaching: 
reading. 

3. What use do you make of the story? 

4. Eskimo and Indian life form popular material for primary schools. 
Why is this true? 

5. Name three books suitable to read to small children. 

6. Name three artists and their work popular in primary schools. 

7. Name some forms of busy work frequently used which has no 
-educational value. Tell why you do not approve them. 

8. Name some forms of busy work which have educational value 
and tell why you approve them. 

9. When pupils reach the fourth grade what work should they have 
mastered in numbers? 

10. By what means do you engender honor among small pupils? 

11. Discuss the importance of imitation in the lower grades. 

12. What is the value of clay modeling? 

13. Should children be required to commit selections? Why? 

14. Discuss the value of story telling in the primary school. 

15. How would you teach the beginner to write? 

16. Name three things you would look for to determine whether 
ou had been successful in teaching primary reading. 

17. What do you consider good discipline in a primary school? 

18. Explain what is meant by motor activiiy? How may the primary 
'eacher make use of this activity? 

19. The child interprets new experiences through his old experiences. 
Is this the best way? Explain. 

20. Make a list of five important qualifications of a good primary 
^eacher. Tell briefly why each is important. 

21. What two habits should the children learn thoroughly in the 
primary grades. 

22. What do children learn by paper cutting and clay modeling? 

23. Should children be allowed to imitate? What use should the 
teacher make of this desire in her pupils? 

24. What is the aim of the first series of numbers? What is the 
initial exercise in teaching these numbers? 

25. Give in detail the steps that the teaching of each successive 
number may include. 

26. Arrange the following in the order of presentation to the child 
and give reason for your arrangement: Language, reading, arithmetic. 

27. By whom must the first steps in reading be determined? Should 



THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 163 

script or print be used in these lessons. If jou use script tell how vou 
would make the change from script to print. 

28. Give the natural order of procedure in teaching reading. Suppose 
you should discover that the concept back of the spoken word was not 
clear, what would you do? 

29. Give in detail the things you would do in the first language 
lesson. The things you would have the pupils do. 

GRAMMAR METHODS 

1. It is said the grammar grades are the hardest of all grades to 
teach. Why? 

2. Make out a specimen test in arithmetic for a seventh grade class. 

3. What criticism have you to offer on the present method of teach- 
ing language ? 

4. What form of literature appeals most to boys in grammar grades? 

5. What amount of home study may be rea.sonably expected of pupils 
from the fifth to the eighth grade? 

6. What scholastic attainment should be required of teachers in 
grammar grades ? 

7. To what extent is rapidity an element in efficiency in school work? 

8. How much school room freedom may reasonably be allowed gram- 
mar grade pupils? 

9. Explain how a subject may be taught incidentally. 

10. Make a lesson plan for presenting the adjective to a seventh 
grade class. 

11. Mention methods by which pupils may be led to do a wid'^r 
range of reading. 

12. Give a good reason why a teacher should teach the pupils how 
to study. 

13. Give the uses of the review. 

14. Make a lesson plan for presenting the subject of interest to an 
eighth grade class. 

15. Explain what should be the chief aim in the teaching of gram- 
mar. Discuss the results of the teaching of this subject as you have 
observed them. 

16. Give suggestions for profitable and interesting daily general 
exercises. 

17. What interests are appealed to in a mental arithmetic recitation? 

18. Make a list of at least four qualifications of a grammar teacher. 
Tell why you consider each important. 

19. Is it advisable that the teacher do much reading to the pupils? 
Give reason for your answer? 

20. Should pupils read straight through the reading book? If not, 
how should the material be selected? 

21. What arguments can you give for the use of reviews? 

22. Name three conditions necessary to a good recitation. 

23. When should the question and answer method be employed? 

24. In what school exercise can promptness be taught? 



170 THE NEBRASKA QUESTION BOOK. 

MORAL EDUCATION 

1. (a) Give some of the physical indications of moral delinquency, 
(b) How may these be remedied? 

2. Mention a distinct moral lesson suggested by (a) Benedict Arnold, 
(b) Abraham Lincoln, (c) William Gladstone, (d) Aaron Burr. 

3. Do you believe in the "self-governed school?" Give reasons for 
your answer. 

4. Would you teach morals directly or indirectly? Why? Name 
three ways morals may be taught indirectly daily. 

5. How would you deal with swearing? 

6. What selection would you use to teach patriotism? Tell just how 
you would use it. 

7. What is an ideal? How may the teacher be of help in forming 
ideals? 

8. Name five of the princiral school virtues. 

9. What is the effect of good habits on success in life? 

10. What relation do home and i chool hold in regard to the moral 
atmosphere of the community? 

11. What advantage in moral education that the teacher know the 
child's home influences? 

12. What should be the teacher's influence on the moral tone of the 
community? 

13. Discuss the place of story-telling in the formation of ideals. 

14. How can morals be taught in connection with reading? 

15. What are the objections to sending a young child to the reform 
school ? 

16. What is the importance of good habits formed early in life? 

17. Would you reprove for bad habits rather than encourage good 
habits in trying to break the bad habits? Why? 

18. To what extent is the teacher responsible for cheating in school? 

19. Name five important historical characters. What virtue would 
you emphasize in each? 

20. Name five school virtues which you consider most important. 

21. As a factor in moral education, how doe;; the teacher compare with 
other factors which enter into a child's life. 

22. If a child is punished by parent or teacher when he is not at fault 
what result may we reasonably expect? 

23. What effect should school life have on habit? To what extent 
should school work be corrective? 

24. To what extent should the school attempt to overcome inherited 
or environmental tendencies? 

25. What do you understand by the "honor system" and to what 
extent can it be employed? 

26. When a pupil does wrong, why is it sometimes best to withhold 
immediate punishment? 

27. Discuss briefly instinct in its relation to habit. 

28. Discuss the will in its relation to habit-breaking. 



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THEORY OF EDUCATION 

1. What step in the inductive method involves text-book study? 

2. Discuss 'habit" very carefully, as to how formed, how broken, its 
value in the educative process, and the evils of bad habit. 

3. Where should the following studies be placed in the program and 
why: Arithmetic, history, drawing, spelling? 

4. What natural instincts of the child may be used to gain interest in 
geography ? 

5. Define: Education, training. 

6. Can we have a "sound mind" without a "sound body"? Discuss. 

7. What is the function of the teacher in the educative process? 

8. What is the objection to "natural" punishment? 

9. What place has imitation in education? 

10. Explain the connection between theory and practice. 

11. Name four sciences upon which scientific pedagogy is based. 

12. Explain the Socratic method. 

13. Upon what does a child's attention to the matter under discussion 
depend? Of what value is this knowledge to the teacher? 

14. Explain how you would present the following facts to a child: 
(a) 3+2=5; (b) 3X2=6. 

15. Why should language and not geometry be taught to pupils in the 
lower grades? Give reason for your answer. 

16. Distinguish between power and skill. 

17. Discuss the recitation as "only a device." 

18. Which has the greater practical value, composition or arithmetic? 
^Hay? 

19. How is professional growth obtained? 

20. Define education. What does the term "Theory of Education" 
convey to you? 

21. What are the factors of education? 

22. Discuss the value of thought questions as compared with fact 
questions. 

23. Name the sciences on which scientific pedagogy rests. 

24. Explain (a) inductive method, (b) deductive method. 

25. What are the three phases of mind activity? 

26. Distinguish between abstraction and generalization. 

27. How are matter and method related in teaching? Can method be 
successfully taught without subject matter? 

28. A recent writer says that the work of the public school is weak 
on the sociological side. What does he mean and is his statement correct? 

29. If the school work is weak on its sociological side, what can be 
done to remedy this defect? 

30. If a child lack the power of sustained attention and concentra- 
tion, what can the school do to help him? 

31. For what did Froebel stand in education? 

32. Discuss the significance of punctuality in school work. 

33. In written work in arithmetic and geography should the pupil be 
held to correct writing, spelling, sentence construction? Why? 

34. Discuss the method of recitation by topics, showing its advantages 
and disadvantages. 



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CERTIFICATION RULES FOR COUNTY CERTIFICATES. 

Examination in orthography, geography, penmanship, grammar, com- 
position. United States history, physiology and hygiene are the subjects 
to be taken for Third Grade County Certificate. Average 75%, no grade 
below 65%. 

Second Grade subjects take in ali subjects listed for Third Grade 
County, and also examination in civil government, drawing, agriculture, 
bookkeeping, and theory and art of teaching. Average 80%, no grade 
below 70%. The holder of a second grade must have eight weeks normal 
training in approved school or one year of successful experience. When 
the average of a Second Grade is 85%, or above, and no grade below 
80% the certificate is then a (With Honor) Second Grade. 

Examination in all subjects required for Second Grade Certificate and 
in algebra, botany, geometry and physics with an average grade of 85% 
and no grade blow 75% is the requirement for a First Grade County 
Certificate. First Grade (With Honor) is a First Grade Certificate with 
each subject 80%, or above, and an average of 90%. Twelve weeks 
normal training is required for a First Grade and one year of experience. 

RENEWAL RULES FOR 1915. 

2nd Grade: Examination in three subjects which are below 80%, 
if there be that many, and earning 70% in reading circle examination. 
Or, earning a grade in one first grade subject and doing the required 
professional v.^ork. Eight weeks attendance in approved school will be 
accepted instead of the reading circle examination. 

1st Grade: Examination in three subjects which are below 80, if 
rhere be that many, and earning grade in reading circle examination. 
Or, examination in "five essentials." Or, eight weeks attendance at 
;ipproved school. Or, professional work and raising certificate to Honor 
rank. 

STATE AND CITY CERTIFICATES. 

An Elementary State Certificate may be grrmted at the completion of 
I wo years course based on 10th grade education, 5 hours observation 
and methods, 5 hours elementary psychology and management. Review 
of common school subjects, physical training 1 hour, music 2 hours, 
drawing 2 hours. 

First Grade State issued by the Normal on completion of study 
covering two years beyond 12th grade high school: 216 weeks attendance 
above 8th grade. 60 college hours. 

First Grade City issued on one year in training school with five 
hours methods and practice, psychology five hours, special methods three 
hours, theory of education three hours; two years experience required 
and graduation from a four year approved high school or the equivalent, 
and three subjects from group 1, and three subjects from group 2. 

Professional City, special method:^ suitable to the department or 
grade for which certificate is issued, three hours psychology, five hours 
history of education, three hours theory of education and also require- 
ments for First Grade City State with five subjects from group 1. 

Second Grade City, twelve hours in education, First Grade County and 
a grade of 80 in all group 1 subjects earned on examination. Or, 
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Group 2 — Child Study, history of education, normal education, in- 
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